The Reality Of Walking Out Of Iraq
At the end of a month that has seen unbelievable carnage and the failure of the US army to pacify Baghdad, despite a deployment of additional troops, the word from Washington is that some other means have to be found...
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By Paul Hutcheon, Scottish Political Editor
THE taxpayer is footing a £7000-a-year bill so that one of Scotland’s wealthiest MSPs can live in his son’s Edinburgh flat, the Sunday Herald can reveal. Labour’s John Home Robertson bills the public £600 a month to rent a property...
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By Paul Hutcheon, Scottish Political Editor
Pope Benedict XVI yesterday issued a condemnation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and instructed bishops to do whatever was necessary to prevent such offences. In rare comments about the sensitive issue, the religious leader said the church needed...
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Ramallah, March-April 2002 THEY came through the wall using sledgehammers. With their faces daubed in camouflage paint and assault rifles and machine guns under their arms, they were a terrifying sight for the Hassan family, who huddled together in fear....
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By Judith Duffy, Health Correspondent
THE Scottish Executive is launching a major drive to improve the hygiene habits of the nation through a £2.5 million campaign that will encourage people to wash their hands more frequently. A two-year initiative will aim to reduce the spread...
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By Paul Hutcheon, Scottish Political Editor
GLASGOW’s bid to host the Commonwealth Games could be damaged by a Canadian documentary portraying the city as awash with gangland violence. One million viewers in the North American country watched harrowing scenes of teenage assaults in Scotland’s largest city....
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While George Bush and Tony Blair pursue a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, the reality on the ground means it is not likely to happen any time soon
By Trevor Royle, Diplomatic Editor
IN Baghdad, not a morning passes without scores of pitiable dead bodies being cleared from the street, victims of the death squads which thrive in the sprawling Iraqi capital. In southern Iraq, British troops are on standby to intervene in...
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Three journalists – Joan Bakewell, Gabriel Ronay and Tom Shields – write about the experiences that shaped their lives and how they feel about the process of ageing
Joan Bakewell AS the days pass, it grows more and more clear that memories flood the mind. Oh, we can be engaged with friends and outings, golf clubs and theatre visits, holidays with the children and grandchildren. But when we’re...
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A NEW high-speed rail link between Scotland and England could help wreck the climate, not save it, as it would increase pollution by encouraging more people to travel. A major report to be unveiled tomorrow challenges the growing green assumption...
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By Liam McDougall, Home Affairs Editor
THE extent of heroin abuse in Scottish jails is creating a new generation of drug addicts and leading to a sense among staff that they are powerless to curb the crisis. A controversial report, commissioned by the Scottish Prison Service,...
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First was the furore over the Muslim veil, now the Christian crucifix has become embroiled in the debate over freedom of religious expression
By Neil Mackay
A new front has opened up in Britain’s religion-fuelled culture wars. Last week, it was the full-face veil worn by a minority of Muslim women in the UK which was in the vanguard of the increasingly heated debate; this weekend,...
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SO, Britain and America’s intelligence services believe that the Iraq war has fuelled international terrorism aimed against the West, and made the world a much more dangerous place to live if you happen to come from Belfast or Boston, Glasgow...
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Michael Russell given choice: change book or lose candidacy. By Paul Hutcheon, Scottish Political Editor
SNP leader Alex Salmond threatened one of his rivals that he would not be a candidate for the next Holyrood election unless he withdrew parts of his “very dangerous” book. The Banff and Buchan MP told Michael Russell his new...
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Scotland’s reputation for militant working-class activism has its roots in the first world war and the people’s refusal to be sent to die in the trenches. By Trevor Royle
WHAT did you do in the Great War, Daddy? That was the question posed on one famous recruiting poster during the first world war and its message was abundantly clear. Did any able-bodied man really want to face his children...
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In the recent past, if you missed the football scores at teatime on a Saturday, you had to buy a Pink paper to catch up with your team’s performance, and put up with the missing scores and poor quality coverage....
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By Liam McDougall, Home Affairs Editor
THE fight to rid Scotland of the menace of sectarianism was stepped up last night after it emerged that police are to make their first applications for football banning orders. In the wake of yesterday’s Old Firm match – which...
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With several top fashion shows deciding to ban very thin models, is this the beginning of the end of the size zero figure? Jenifer Johnston attempts to answer this and other questions
When Luisel Ramos came down from the catwalk last month, she walked backstage heading for the dressing room of the Radisson Victoria Hotel in Montevideo. According to her father, in the three months beforehand she had eaten green, leafy vegetables...
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As an academic discussion metamorphoses into an insult to the Muslim world, Philip Willan in Rome examines how Pope Benedict, theologian and scholar of Islam, has disastrously failed in his statesmanship
Pope Benedict XVI has shown himself to be an innovator in the realm of headgear. Last winter he sported an ermine-lined, red velvet cap known as a camauro that had not been seen since the days of Pope John XXIII,...
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How do you turn an analytic and distant chancellor into an amiable, expressive PM-in-waiting? Westminster Editor James Cusick looks at the Gordon Brown makeover
Labour MPs loyal to Tony Blair believe that unless potential challengers indicate their willingness to stand against Gordon Brown, the chancellor will soon be “given a clear run” to Number 10. Blairite loyalists are said to be dismayed that neither...
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A LEADING race expert has claimed the UK and US governments have “resurrected a culture of primitive racism” after the terrorist attacks in both countries. Dr A Sivanandan, the director of the Institute of Race Relations, told a conference yesterday...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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