“Ministers like to claim they are world-leading on this issue, but the reality is that the SNP have missed crucial targets in nine out of the last 13 years. Now they have had to ditch them altogether after typically over promising and under delivering."
Riot police were pelted with bricks and fireworks in the Niddrie area of Edinburgh with a female officer hurt when the window of her vehicle was shattered. An open-top bus carrying young people with disabilities was also targeted with fireworks outside the city’s Dynamic Earth attraction.
'People smuggling should be viewed as a global security threat similar to terrorism. We’ve got to combine resources, share intelligence and tactics, and tackle the problem upstream, working together to shut down the smuggling routes.'
'Being an MSP is a full-time job and should be seen as such'
"The Labour government's budget also imposes more than £40billion of cuts and tax hikes that will hit millions of Scots in the pocket - and it fails to deliver the transformative change people in Scotland were promised."
"Given the need for integrity and good governance, I echo the call for a judge led inquiry. The First Minister should really agree, unless, of course, he has something to hide."
The Herald columnist Andy Maciver, a former director of communications at the Scottish Conservatives, wrote last week there was a certain 'tawdriness' over the former First Minister's repatriation.
The finance secretary has not ruled out ending the council tax freeze as she seeks to get support in Holyrood for her budget plans.
"Without my school and my teachers, I would never have gone down the music route. This made me realise how important it is for people, especially young people, to experience music."
"John Swinney should make an urgent statement to Parliament on the content of discussions between this civil servant and the now First Minister, and why such a clearly unacceptable arrangement was allowed to continue for so long."
