It’s been a turbulent year but now Scott Harrison is ready for a fight, reports Steve Bunce
Scott Harrison is clean and ready to fight. On Tuesday in Puerto Rico, at the offices of the World Boxing Organisation, a few envelopes will be opened containing purse bids for Harrison’s next fight. If his promoter, Frank Warren,...
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Shadow Enterprise Minister Jim Mather launches the SNP's new policy to help SME businesses
The SNP will improve the competitiveness of the small business sector, which has eroded during Jack McConnell's administration. That is why we won the support all the Dragons at the Dragons' Den event at the Festival of Politics: proving that...
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Cisco's Caledonian chief believes we have a golden opportunity ... but only if we act now
High-value, long-term jobs and a return on the investments made in Scotland’s skill-base and telecoms network is what we are all looking for – and the mounting technical and governance challenges, associated with managing exponential growth in business data, provides...
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Niall Stuart argues that Scotland's commercial community is being hamstrung by bureaucracy
It should come as no surprise to anyone that Scotland's businesses are increasingly fed up with the amount of regulation and red tape they have to deal with. According to Scottish Enterprise research, in the last few years we have...
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If we want tourism to grow, Alan Rankin argues, we'll have to make it easier to get around
Scottish tourism is dependent on the car. 68% of all trips to Scotland by UK visitors is by car. Train, coach, bus and air account for 28%. An estimated 78million night stays in 2005 racks up a huge amount of...
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Texas keyboardist Michael Bannister on the debate over using technology to record music
I went to visit a friend of mine today who was composing the music for a tv series. He sat in his studio between two enormous computer screens telling me what a pain it was to have so many windows...
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Leon McDermott thinks that attempts to combat ticket touts are only hurting music's fans
Ticket touts, much like the biblical poor, have always been with us. Pick a sold-out gig, any one you want, and there will be shady-looking fellas baseball cap, tracksuit top, Mancunian accent ready to sell you a ticket...
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Their digital cousins are okay, but Diane Smyth mourns the traditional photobooth
In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche proposes the idea of the eternal return. Like a crazy Nordic Groundhog Day, time is cyclical, he suggests, and whatever has happened, will happen again. Nietzsche admitted it's a 'horrifying and paralyzing' thought and...
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Would you pay more just to get the right brand? Neil Boorman wonders why so many people do
Take two white t-shirts. They are identical in size, shape and quality, only one has a Nike logo on the breast. The non-branded shirt costs £5, Nike's costs £50. Considering they perform the same basic function, its unimaginable that anyone...
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Forum editor Elizabeth Coldwell believes the ban on certain forms of pornography is dangerous
With the Government's plan to make the possession of violent porn punishable by three years in jail, and prevent access to images of already illegal acts such as bestiality and necrophilia, comes a real danger that we will criminalise many...
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Shiona Baird argues for limits to be placed on political parties' spending on election campaigns
Public funding of political parties is not exactly a popular cause. Meanwhile private funding of political parties has led to the "cash for peerages" scandal, to policy u-turns made solely to benefit rich donors, and to political parties being seen...
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Childline Scotland's Lynn O'Hara on the urgent call for volunteers to help our charities survive
Would you work for no money? Every year thousands of charities ask people to do just that by asking them to volunteer. I do that as Volunteer Coordinator for ChildLine Scotland. We're one of over 6500 organisations looking to...
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James Alexander on NUS Scotland's campaign for student discounts on public transport
Discounted public transport a new benefit for students or a small extension of the child fare? It has been reported over the last few days that one of the Executive's key partnership agreement proposals, discounted public transport for students,...
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Sports performance manager Raleigh Gowrie argues that young golfers need not rush to the US
Richie Ramsay's recent success at the US Amateur Golf Championship proved to be a worthy achievement for a committed and level-headed competitor. Of course, his record as a junior internationalist demonstrated his talents and potential at a young age. Some...
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Polly Purvis asks how we can master the sales skills that will drive the technology sector
We had a great discussion at this week's Technology Leaders Lunch around how to tackle the shortage of sales skills, long recognised as one of the "missing links" for many high tech businesses. Software and ICT businesses in Scotland are...
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Iain S Bruce wonders whether the electronics giant can recover from a spate of recent issues
It invented the transistor radio, the walkman and the compact disk, but despite the company's impeccable track record as an electronics innovator, Sony seems to have more than its fair share of problems at the moment. As we discuss in...
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Jim Delahunt on the need to revisit the rules governing Group One race scheduling
The veteran bloodstock journalist Peter Willett has bemoaned the fact that too many mundane Group One races are ruining the International Pattern system which, since 1965, has sought to ensure that a series of races, over the right distances at...
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Writer, musician and optimist Pat Kane on the rise and rise of the independence movement
It sounds like something you'd read in an alternative universe, where the New Statesman replaces Heat as the commuter's browse of choice: but yes, I Was Once An Eighties' Scottish Nationalist. Actually, I'm still an Oughties' Scottish Nationalist, and for...
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By his own confession, Charles Kennedy drank too much, too often, while attempting to lead the Liberal Democrats. Neither aberration is, in fact, illegal. A handful of people in Kennedy’s party and the Westminster media knew that excess had become...
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Trevor Royle on the plight of the Palestinians struggling to survive in the Gaza Strip
Either by accident or design, while events in southern Lebanon were grabbing the headlines all over the world everyone seemed to forget the plight facing the Palestinians in Gaza. In the same period over 200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed...
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Iain Macwhirter on the PM’s maddening long goodbye
So, now we know. Tony Blair isn’t going, according to The Times on Friday. Oh yes he is, according to The Guardian on the same day. The PM has decided it would be destabilising to give a timetable for his...
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Muriel Gray on the crazy notion of foetal asbos
Does Blair think we’re all buttoned up the back? Nothing he utters any more seems to have the remotest connection to the welfare of the country. It’s as though while hunched over Cherie’s Prada calculator, working out how much...
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Holyrood commentary: Iain Macwhirter on the failure of Scotland’s small parties
There’s only one question at the start of this crucial election campaign: have they got the bottle? Do Scottish opposition parties really want to be in government after the Holyrood elections in May? I’m afraid that the short answer...
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Top American sportswriter Art Spander on Andre Agassi's lurch towards retirement
Andre? Rafael? Amelie? Names from the courts, names of recognition. But the name dominating the US Open tennis championships yesterday was Ernesto, as in Tropical Storm Ernesto. If not quite a hurricane it arrived with a shot of rain and...
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This week I have been busy helping Damien Hirst on his new spot painting. I nip down to B&Q and get all the different colours mixed. It is fun work and, despite his occasional mood swings, most edifying. He is...
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Former Sony chief Chris Deering on the latest challenge to iTunes' download dominance
If Spiral Frog, the service to be launched next month in US and December or January in UK, gets as much support from all record companies as they did from Universal Music (the company with the biggest worldwide market share),...
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John McAleenan believes recent innovations could see the iPod makers challenge Redmond
Apple must feel like its time has finally come. Long considered the preserve of “arty-types” and children, Apple’s current line-up of Mac desktop and laptop computers finally looks capable of puncturing the old myths and emerging as a serious contender...
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Kirk Ewing on the potential power of Google Earth and the corporate dash to (mis)use it
I’m flying over Nevada trying to find Las Vegas. Even though Vegas is generally considered a major metropolis, I seem unable to pinpoint its whereabouts and spend my time instead drifting aimlessly across bleached deserts and rusty mountains until I...
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Iain S Bruce on the announcement that Sony won't launch PS3 to Europe until March 2007
According to the BBC, Sony have admitted that their flagship Playstation 3 console now won't hit Europe until March 2007. Adding a further six months to what has already been a long and tedious saga won't please the people who've...
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Nicola Sturgeon outlines the benefits she believes independence would offer Caledonia
The best future for Scotland and the Scottish people is independence. Not even Mr McConnell believes all the scaremongering rubbish he has been spouting in the last few days. He's just following orders. Everybody else in the Labour Party is...
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Another record label has unchained its content. Can iTunes take it? Iain S Bruce reports
Canada's leading privately owned record label and artist management company, Nettwerk, has announced that it will give users on-demand access to listen freely to the labels’ content. Responsible for managing Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne and some of North America's biggest...
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Five years on, Ground Zero workers and residents are still suffering serious health effects
As the fifth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center approaches, US government officials have been accused of covering up the extent of the environmental impact the tragedy has wreaked upon New Yorkers. The New York Environmental Law...
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CelebrityWatch: Helen Archer rounds up all the week's hot maternity action from Hollywood
The big celebrity news of the week was, of course, the unveiling of Tom Cruise's new project : Fatherhood. He had been keeping it under wraps for some time, ironing out the details, the supporting cast, and there were, it...
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Demetrios Matheou on Little Miss Sunshine, Right At Your Door, Three Times & Snow Cake
There aren’t too many sunny dispositions in Little Miss Sunshine, for the Hoover family are a gloriously ill-at-ease and mismatched bunch. Dad Richard (Greg Kinnear), is a struggling motivational speaker, whose studied optimism grates with his family; “pro-honesty” mom Sheryl...
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HERE follows one of those crashing generalisations that have made the great British press a shining example to world civilisation. There are four types of men. No more, no fewer. The first is gay, and has no interest whatever in...
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Ken Symon on the oil slump, bird flu, the insurance business and a whole world of risk
Dennis Mahoney and his colleagues know more than a thing or two about risk. Helping client businesses identify, quantify and manage risk forms an increasing part of what Aon, of which Mahoney is the UK chief executive and chairman,...
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Sunday Herald Business Leader
Tony Blair at least had the grace to apologise to the British electorate for the chaos of the Labour leadership jostling over the last few days when he made his statement on Thursday. Blair, as a politician who has won...
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Still bolshily trying to save the world, Katharine Hamnett launches her spring/summer 2007 ethical ‘E’ collection at London Fashion Week next week. Sylvia Patterson meets the feisty fiftysomething fashionista who has no time for Tony Blair, corporate greed or hippies
This London Fashion Week, Katharine Hamnett is considering wearing one of her iconic slogan T-shirts, like the ones which lit up the Eighties – Worldwide Nuclear Ban Now, Preserve The Rainforests – which were then adopted by pop bands...
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Leggings: they’re back back back! Just in time for the autumn cover-up and proving, once again, that the concept of originality in fashion is now as quaint as the cassette-tape Walkman, which you might have listened to while not enjoying...
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A friend and I are debating the critical matter of whether women our age (her: 39, me: 41) can get away with wearing the mini skirts that are currently flooding the shops, as long as they’re ‘teamed’ (I do love...
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THE topic for today is presbyopia. The chap from Lewis who writes to me angrily in CAPITAL LETTERS may be happy to know that this is nothing to do with Presbyterians against whom, he wrongly believes, I have a terrible...
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The covers of his bestselling thrillers carried only his name, but Dick Francis readily admits his wife, Mary, was the source of his success. Alan Taylor hears how he got back in the saddle after her death
REGRETS? Dick Francis has a few. For example, he mourns the five years during the second world war which he spent in a Spitfire when he would rather have been riding horses. Nothing, however, can compare with not winning the...
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Innovation and flexible work practices will decide how much oil comes out of the North Sea. Antony Akilade reports
‘A GUY who took over a field from one of the super majors told me he knew things were worse than he’d thought once he’d set down on the platform to discover they had taken all the light bulbs away”,...
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By Ken Symon, Business Editor
The government’s pensions white paper is “a missed opportunity” and has partly suffered from the rivalry between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, according to a former Downing Street adviser. Pensions specialists interviewed for a Channel 4 programme blamed Brown’s distraction...
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By Ken Symon, Business Editor
IT may be a kind of compliment to Susan Rice’s achievements at Lloyds TSB Scotland that new banking competitors are coming into the Scottish market. Rice, who is just beginning her seventh year as chief executive of the Edinburgh-based bank,...
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By Steven Vass, Media Correspondent
THE Thomson holiday people have got it right. Guinness has got it wrong. L’Oréal started off badly but has made a good recovery. Most Scottish companies, on the other hand, are not even at the races. These are some of...
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Muriel Gray on reaction to the death of Steve Irwin
In terms of the prolific posthumous commentating that goes on when a public figure has died, it has always struck me as exceedingly mean, not to mention pointless, to speak ill of people. It goes without saying that the exception...
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IF you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the little red book and those cute Mao button badges that were such useful fashion accessories for those of an agitprop tendency back in the seventies. Thirty years after Mao Zedong’s death,...
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By Rob Edwards, Environment Editor
SCOTLAND is failing to look after its history, and tens of thousands of historic buildings, monuments and sites across the country are being given inadequate protection by a government which doesn’t appreciate their value. That, in essence, is the message...
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THEIR country is a quagmire of insurgency and sectarian violence, but the number of Iraqi asylum seekers opting to return voluntarily has almost doubled since the government introduced a controversial cash-for-repatriation scheme. In 2005, just 768 Iraqis left the UK...
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FOR nearly 20 years, fans of the hit BBC production Tutti Frutti have been desperate to see the series again. In the absence of a DVD release or even a re-run on television, worn-out videotape copies of the show have...
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EMPLOYERS must identify and promote the business case for flexible working at boardroom level to tackle the macho culture of long hours endemic in the financial sector, according to a new report. Campaigning charity Working Families questioned 10 London-based blue-chip...
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The BBC was last night standing by its decision to broadcast controversial docudrama The Path To 9/11, despite massive protests in the US denouncing the American-produced series as “right-wing propaganda”. The two-part drama is due to be shown tonight...
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Thirty-five years after Margaret Thatcher inflicted her cruellest cut, the Scottish Executive has revealed plans to restore free milk in schools. The former prime minister’s decision, made while she was education secretary in 1971, to abolish universal free milk for...
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By James Cusick, Westminster Editor
TONY Blair is refusing to back Gordon Brown as his successor, despite the chancellor’s demand during a heated meeting last week that he do so. Advisers close to Blair say he has made up his mind to remain publicly...
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By Norman Tebbit, former tory party chairman and close ally of Margaret Thatcher
Observing the dying days of prime minister Blair is bound to bring back memories of Margaret Thatcher’s last days in Number 10. In 1987, she won her third great election victory, polling some 40,000 more votes than at her first...
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Tommy Sheridan on the issues that must be confronted before Scotland is truly free
Scotland is a rich country. We are a nation rich in talent, rich in ideas, rich in resources, yet some of our citizens have a lower life expectancy than people in Iraq and the Gaza strip. We export energy, oil,...
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Is what Tony Blair Said by accident Or was it design? Funny innit? Just when our troops Are taking flak Fat Boy and Lying Git Get all petulant And wiggy. Blanket news, On the hour Every hour, Controlled demolitions, Just...
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Money talks … unless the cash concerned comes from corporate sponsorship, then, argues Alasdair Reid, it tends to have the opposite effect
It is already part of golf’s Open Championship folklore that Thomas Bjorn made a complete pig’s ear of getting out of a bunker beside the 16th green in the final round of the 2003 event at Royal St George’s. On...
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Chelsea 2 / Charlton 1
Philip Dorward at Stamford Bridge
In keeping with a week where Chelsea washed their dirty linen in public this was a win for the Blues that degenerated into a grubby affair. Jose Mourinho praised the fight shown by his team but it wasn’t as feisty...
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Manchester United 1 / Tottenham 0
Natasha Woods at Old Trafford
SIR Alex Ferguson said he could recall “half a million” games like this one, and while that was an exaggeration, you knew what he meant. Almost two decades of experience at Old Trafford has taught him these are the sort...
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Motherwell 1 / Inverness CT 4
Ron McKay at Fir Park
Motherwell have never beaten Inverness Caley Thistle at Fir Park and here was the perfect illustration of why they repeatedly fail. The score may have flattered the away side – a series of schoolboy errors led to the goals, in...
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Hearts 0 / St Mirren 1
Stewart Fisher at Tynecastle
VLADIMIR Romanov may admit to picking the team these days but there remain other variables that he cannot control. A combination of some astonishing goalkeeping from Tony Bullock, at least one crucial and controversial intervention from referee Dougie McDonald, and...
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Dunfermline 3 / Kilmarnock 2
Dave Hammond at East End Park
DUNFERMLINE rekindled its love affair with Stevie Crawford yesterday as the prodigal son returned to East End Park to score a spectacular winner as the home side fought for their first SPL win of the season. Crawford left it until...
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Rangers 4 / Falkirk 0
Alan Campbell at Ibrox
THE Bill Struth Main Stand was duly hanselled by Rangers’ biggest win of the season, but despite the handsome scoreline this was a lethargic performance by Paul Le Guen’s side. The Ibrox side were due a goal or two, and...
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Aberdeen 0 / Celtic 1
Michael Grant at Pittodrie
JAN Vennegoor of Hesselink is quite a handle to crowbar into the newspaper headlines every week, yet he seems to have a knack for managing it. Pittodrie was invaded by a contingent of Danish journalists who had crossed the north...
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The Dane may have been forced to say sorry to Ian Woosnam but that doesn’t mean he was wrong, says Alan Campbell
FEW undercards have produced a scrap as intriguing as the one we revelled in last week. In the blue corner, representing Denmark and a searing grievance, Thomas Bjorn. In the red corner, representing Wales and the art of how not...
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The jury is still out on the regime of Gordon Strachan. One of the bigger squads in Scottish football has performed well enough, of late, but there remains a strange air of hesitancy, of uncertainty. What sort of squad are...
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Mats Wilander tells Eleanor Preston of one area where the Scot is falling down
Mats Wilander had won two grand slam titles by the time he was Andy Murray’s age, so you can’t blame him for being a little circumspect amid all the hype surrounding the Scots teenager right now. By anyone’s standards, Murray...
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Jim Delahunt in the saddle
SCOTLAND stages its richest Flat meeting of the year this week when the three-day Western Meeting (sorry, the totesport Ayr Gold Cup Festival) runs from 2.10pm on Thursday through to Saturday’s final event at 5.45. It is a 22-race spectacular...
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Football thrives in the most hostile environments. There was an Asian Cup qualifying match on Thursday which ended in a 2-2 draw between Iraq and Palestine. It was a minor miracle the game took place at all. The Iraqis are...
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Stewart Fisher draws comparisons between the Celtic of today and the early years of Martin O’Neill’s reign
ONCE upon a time a manager came to Celtic after making his name at a provincial club in England. Although this same manager had taken his team to unimaginable heights domestically, the fact he had been at provincial club for...
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After a rocky start to the season, Dundee United are benefiting from the manager’s changes, writes Michael Grant
THEY say life begins at 40, but since when has a Dundee United manager had the luxury of hanging around that long? Craig Brewster, who reaches that significant birthday in three months’ time, is almost ready to be pensioned off...
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Michael Grant spends an evening in the company of Vladimir Romanov, joining in the guessing game over the Hearts owner’s every enigmatic utterance
HAVING spent a couple of hours in the company of the Hearts owner in Lithuania the other night, it seems reasonable to suggest that Vladimir Romanov treats his guests better than his managers. Food, drink, smiles and handshakes were plentiful...
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Michael Grant finds Walter Smith is too long in the tooth to allow himself or his players to get carried away with Scotland’s six out of six points start to the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign.
THE offer of champagne was not accepted by as many passengers as the crew of Flight XLA7283 might have expected on the journey back from Kaunas to Glasgow on Wednesday evening. The SFA’s charter flight was well stocked with bubbly...
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TONY Mowbray’s message to the Hibs supporters is succinct. Enjoy the journey. This season’s meander through Scotland, he acknowledges, is not going to deliver the Premierleague title. Instead, the Easter Road manager promises more entertaining, attacking football and perhaps a...
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Steve Bunce hopes the time has finally come for Britain’s most neglected fighter
Junior Witter is Britain’s most neglected fighter. That is a boxing fact and not a convenient bit of fiction. In nine years as a professional he has lost just once in 36 fights and, since 2000, he has stopped or...
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RANGERS fans are to be left in no doubt that the reputation of their club is in their hands this week as the side returns to European action for the first time since being fined over the sectarian chanting which...
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£200m development lays to rest the ghost of Ravenscraig
The developers of the former Ravenscraig steelworks site have unveiled the first £200 million phase of the scheme after years of legal wrangling. A £1 billion transformation of the 1100-acre North Lanarkshire brownfield site has been planned for more than...
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The world comes to Glasgow next month for the fourth international Waterfront Expo exhibition, reports Ken Symon
Developers and civic leaders from around the world will visit Glasgow next month to study the redevelopment of the River Clyde. About 450 delegates from 33 countries who are planning or already working on waterfront developments will attend the Waterfront...
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You could say Will Whitehorn’s career has always had an upward trajectory. He first flew small planes from Turnhouse as a teenage air cadet. After graduating from Aberdeen University, one of his early jobs was as a helicopter crewman in...
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South Korea boasts the world’s 12th largest economy, attracting Scots businesses – from life sciences to whisky – hoping to make a noise in the Land Of The Morning Calm
From Julia Fields in Seoul
Stephen Hammond is nursing a serious hangover. The Scottish Biomedical chief executive is recovering from an evening of hospitality with executives from South Korea’s Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical (CKD) that included numerous rounds of A-bombs, a potent mixture of beer...
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Recent bad news from insurance giant Aviva with the announcement of 450 jobs facing the axe casts a pall over the Scottish financial services sector. But one bad headline, however tough it is for the people involved, does not give...
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By Steven Vass, Media Correspondent
ODAY sees the launch of The Sunday Edition, ITV1’s new politics show to replace Jonathan Dimbleby’s ailing Sunday Programme. Fronted by Observer columnist Andrew Rawnsley and ITN presenter Andrea Catherwood, the new hour-long show aims to win the Sunday morning...
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Jamie Oliver is right. Of course he’s right. No one wants their child to be a 10 stone 10-year-old, paralysed by inertia, berserk through ADF, diagnosed with diabetes, high blood pressure and a 30-year-old’s arteries by the age of 15...
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When Elizabeth Laird moved to Lebanon in 1977 with her family, civil war had been raging for two years and great swathes of Beirut had already been destroyed. Now, as Lebanon suffers the atrocities of war once again, she recalls her time in a shattered country where hopes for peace persisted amidst the chaos and remembers the warm and vibrant community which faced adversity with generosity and spirit
I was unwell all last winter, and for some reason began to remember Lebanon. Perhaps it was a wish to see again the sharp, white light of the cold months there, or feel wrapped again in the humid heat of...
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TWO news items last week on the health front. Hundreds of Scots with cancer die each year because they are diagnosed too late to receive treatment. More than 200 hip operations at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary have been cancelled as theatres...
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By author and film-maker Kevin Toolis
ON October 3 2003, shortly after noon, a smartly dressed young woman walked into Maxim’s seaside restaurant in the Israeli port city of Haifa. The woman sat down and ordered a chicken kebab. The restaurant was busy. It was a...
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Demetrios Matheou reviews the week's films
The Black Dahlia marks something of a return to form for Brian De Palma, one of the few genuine stylists left in mainstream American cinema . That this muscular, handsomely mounted detective story, set in 1940s Los Angeles, ultimately disappoints...
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DO you have a minute for the starving children of Africa? The world stops. What is the right answer to that question? “No”? “Yes, but …?” Welcome to the world of the chugger – or charity mugger – who will...
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By Liam McDougall, Home Affairs Editor
European football’s governing body, Uefa, has urged Scottish authorities to get tough with fans who display sectarian beha viour during next weekend’s Old Firm league clash. The match will be the first meeting of the two clubs since the decision...
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Leading historian Tom Devine has attacked high-profile Scots, including Channel 4 executive Stuart Cosgrove and television don Niall Ferguson, for being too “pessimistic” about their nation. He said that negative comments relayed in the Scottish media were in direct conflict...
