Woman raped by Raith Rovers footballer says Nicola Sturgeon should have spoken out sooner

She added: “The First Minister was correct to condemn Raith Rovers last week but I don’t remember her saying anything at all four years ago about why…

Nicola Sturgeon’s £500 pandemic ‘thank you’ given to highly paid council officials who worked from home

Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to award a £500 pandemic “thank you” to health and social care staff led to millions of pounds of bonuses being handed to highly…

The BBC’s devolution mania is killing off meritocracy

It would appear that the BBC has been smitten, yet again, by the dead hand of devolution. As if it wasn’t bad enough that it coughed up…

Nicola Sturgeon’s £500 pandemic ‘thank you’ given to non-frontline staff who worked from home

Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to award a £500 pandemic “thank you” to health and social care staff led to millions of pounds of bonuses being handed to highly…

Nicola Sturgeon claims UK taxpayers would fund Scots’ pensions after independence

Murdo Fraser, a Scottish Tory MSP, challenged her at First Minister’s Questions whether it was “really now the SNP position that pensions in an independent Scotland would…

Nicola Sturgeon extends face mask mandate in Scottish secondary schools

Scotland’s secondary pupils are to be forced to continue wearing face masks and their exams will continue to be marked more generously this year, SNP ministers have…

How Scotland played politics with the pandemic – and lost

As such, it demonstrated the futility of allowing devolved governments so much scope for restricting individual freedoms, all the while allowing them easy access to HM Treasury,…

Nicola Sturgeon relies on Bank of England amid record deficit

Nicola Sturgeon relied on the heft of the Bank of England to run up a record deficit during the pandemic, according to a new report that highlights…

Nicola Sturgeon relaxes work from home guidance – but insists face masks must stay in classrooms

The First Minister told MSPs the average daily number of cases over the past week had declined from just under 10,000 to slightly more than 7,000, with…

Astonishment as SNP claims ‘clear signs of Covid recovery’ pave way for second independence vote

Hospitality leaders have expressed astonishment after Nicola Sturgeon’s deputy said preparation for a second independence referendum had restarted, despite pubs and restaurants still reeling from the pandemic….

Sturgeon relaxes work from home guidance – but insists face masks must stay in classrooms

The First Minister told MSPs the average daily number of cases over the past week had declined from just under 10,000 to slightly more than 7,000, with…

Astonishment as SNP claims ‘clear signs of recovery’ pave way for second independence vote

Hospitality leaders have expressed astonishment after Nicola Sturgeon’s deputy claimed preparation for a second independence referendum had restarted, despite pubs and restaurants still reeling from the pandemic….

Nicola Sturgeon’s Scotland is becoming everything it swore it was against

According to her boss, Lorna Slater is “an incredibly hard worker”. Let’s just pause a moment to consider this endorsement. Slater is one of two Scottish ministers…

Chopper’s Politics: SNP’s Ian Blackford on Scottish Independence and why Boris Johnson must resign

While Britain is distracted by boozy parties at 10 Downing Street, the SNP’s leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, joins the Telegraph’s associate editor, Christopher Hope to sink…

Nicola Sturgeon faces drug and alcohol battle at nationalised shipyard

Bosses at Glasgow’s once-thriving shipbuilding yards were stern about keeping workers on a short leash. With more workers than jobs, misbehaviour, however minor, was not tolerated. But…

Boris Johnson offers olive branch to devolved administrations with new leaders’ forum

Boris Johnson is to chair a new forum for talks with Nicola Sturgeon and the Welsh and Northern Irish first ministers in an attempt to improve strained…

Boris Johnson snubbed by Scottish Tories after not being invited to speak at party conference

But senior Scottish Tory strategists are concerned that Mr Johnson clinging on to power will lead to a large spike in support for independence and reopen the…

Nicola Sturgeon is wrong — learning to live with Covid must not mean masks forever

Last week Wes Streeting, the Shadow Health Secretary, said that the mission for this year needed to be “learning to live well with the virus”. By this,…

Booster jabs will be needed for Scottish vaccine passports, says Nicola Sturgeon

Booster jabs will be required to access events and nightclubs in Scotland using the vaccine passport scheme, Nicola Sturgeon announced on Tuesday as she said that her…

It’s time to bust the myth that Nicola Sturgeon has had a ‘good pandemic’

“Scotland is to reduce the time for self-isolation from ten to seven days, bringing it into line with the rest of the UK.” I gasped and wondered…

Parent group demands Nicola Sturgeon withdraws ‘inappropriate’ school sex survey

The head of Scotland’s largest parent group has demanded that Nicola Sturgeon’s Government withdraw an “inappropriate” health and wellbeing census for schools that asks 14-year-olds about their…

Parent group demands Nicola Sturgeon withdraw ‘inappropriate’ school sex survey

The head of Scotland’s largest parent group has demanded that Nicola Sturgeon’s Government withdraw an “inappropriate” health and wellbeing census for schools that asks 14-year-olds about their…

Nicola Sturgeon’s opponents must force her to make a Damascene conversion on Covid rules

This was the week that Nicola Sturgeon appeared to accept that there was more than one way to stop a pandemic surging out of control and that…

Sturgeon urged to lift Scotland’s Covid curbs, as just one omicron patient in intensive care

Sandesh Gulhane, the health spokesman for the Scottish Tories, called on Ms Sturgeon to urgently bring Scotland’s self-isolation rules into line with the rest of the UK….

Nicola Sturgeon’s war on drugs deaths hit by resignation of key advisers

Nicola Sturgeon’s war on drugs deaths has descended into chaos after two key advisers quit, blaming pressure from SNP ministers. Catriona Matheson, an expert in substance misuse,…