Iain Macwhirter Now and Then

   And there is scarcely a dry eye in the house as Sir Chris Hoy, laden with medals, says goodbye to the fans who have followed him so ecs...

 The First Minister is in a dither about it; the cabinet is split over it; church figures call for a referendum as gay rights activists ta...

    Scottish nationalists could be forgiven for cursing fate this week. Both Ireland and the autonomous Spanish region of Catalonia, the t...

  Five years ago this week, on the 9 th  of August 2007, the world changed. That was day the banks suddenly stopped lending to each other,...

Where is the anger?  Where is the resistance? Five years into the worst economic crisis since the 1930s and earnings – apart from those of...

Whatever happened to Braveheart?  Time was when the debate about Scottish independence was all about heroic issues like freedom, national ...

   Driving back from Dover from holiday, we decided to let the satnav do the job of getting us round London. Yes, I know – you just head n...

  Can it really be that, only seven years ago this month, a quarter of a million people, all dressed in white, encircled Edinburgh in the c...

     “An epitaph for an age of irresponsibility”, is how the Chancellor, George Osborne, described the Barclay's Libor-fixing scandal i...

The SNP said this year's rebellion by Tory MPs on reform of the House of Lords was confirmation that “Westminster cannot be truste...

It's the campaign that just can't say no. “Better Together”, the unionist campaign for the independence referendum, finally gets...

 It's the biggest poker game in history. On one side of the table, the dowdy, conservative German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, on the ot...

   The shadow of Jeremy Clarkson loomed large over Scotland this week as Ed Miliband launched his latest bid to save the union. The Top Ge...

     Capital Flight may sound like the name of a new budget airline – in fact it's what happens when a country loses trust in itself. ...

    It was an bright spring day as well-kent faces from a variety of political backgrounds came together in Edinburgh to sign a declaratio...

The European single currency and the Sunday Herald are the same age. Both entered the world on January 1999, a coincidence our first ed...

    It didn't take the University Principals long to mobilise against the reforms to Scottish higher education governance recommended by...

 The status quo isn't what it used to be. In the old days, you knew where you stood when you voted No to constitutional change. You wo...

But they will never take...our pandas! I don't know where the Mirror got the story that, because they were gifts to the UK not Scotlan...

 Readers of this column will be aware that I've been complaining about by gob being smacked on a regular basis by the twists and turns o...