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The SNP’s control freakery is a barrier to public sector reform

The government talks a good game but has shirked the hard work of overhauling Scotland’s public services

The Hamilton by-election was not a turning point for Scottish Labour, it is merely respite

It could have been a disaster for Labour, but it was not.

Sketch: Sajid Javid welcomes Europeans to the UK

Brexit has lessons for an Indyref2

Scotland can help show the world what real economic progress could look like

The UK's past means disputes over its museum contents are inevitable

If we want to empower local authorities, why not give councils the power to develop taxes themselves?

Indyref2: from gung-ho to go-slow

The question is not whether the UK needs a new constitutional framework, but what that framework should be

Associate feature: How community pharmacies can help tackle minor ailments

Sketch: MSPs talk planes, trains and electric automobiles

Health services learn from both positive and negative feedback

Practical measures to heal the NHS in Scotland

Running late: why ScotRail needs to stop apologising and start providing

UNCRC is coming to Scots law. Could it render the care system illegal?

William Lindsay’s suicide is an indictment of the treatment of young offenders

Time to take back control of our language

Associate feature: Festive compassion needs to give way to real action on poverty

Sketch: Brexit, plots and the great mace heist

'Why we didn’t get married'

Quitting UNESCO would be an act of cultural vandalism

Sketch: Theresa May's magical mystery tour

Depression: My year off the gear

Poverty and human rights: closing the accountability gap

Henry McLeish: the most toxic, racist and fear-mongering US election campaign in recent memory

Associate feature: the bus network needs investment not a change of ownership