The Scottish Budget has passed its first hurdle with backing from the Lib Dems, Greens, and Alba, while Labour abstained. The deal includes a ...

It’s a well-known truism that if a newspaper headline is phrased as a question, the answer to that question is always “No”. And nothing’s changed here.

The Scottish Parliament does not have a second chamber like the House of Lords. Instead, it has a powerful committee system which can propose as well as scrutinise bills. Committees are made up of ...

THE audacity of independence? Rabbie Burns would not have needed to paraphrase Barack Obama’s inspiring words about the “audacity of hope” ...

SHAMELESS Michael Matheson has claimed his £11,000 parliamentary iPad bill scandal was “completely blown out of all proportion”.  In an interview with the Institute for Government, the former ...

Watch this video to find out what happens at the Scottish Parliament and what MSPs do. Every four or five years, voters in Scotland elect the 129 MSPs who representthem in the Scottish Parliament.

THE illusion that Britain is a democracy was completely shattered by the result of the General Election. We now have a government with a ...

Nigel Farage is giving the Scottish Tories a run for their money as the clock ticks down to the next Holyrood election in ...

Nicola Sturgeon called for Scotland to have some form of formal mechanism to allow the country to hold an independence referendum such as ...

the repeal of the 2012 Constitution and the dissolution of the former regime's parliament, army and security agencies. It came in landmark moves in the wake of the fall of the Baath regime in ...

The National Library of Scotland will celebrate its 100th birthday with a full year long birthday programme of events. National Librarian Amina Shah said: “A century ago, we were established in the ...

We may see the announcement of further top-ups over the next few weeks as the Budget Bill progresses through parliament using the funding being carried forward. The Scottish Government could also hold ...