Inside Politics

Risky business: The agency helping finance the ideas of the future

As scientific developments accelerate at breakneck speed, the UK’s advanced research agency is backing new ideas in search of transformative discoveries

Scottish National Investment Bank: A costly gamble?

Much political capital has been staked in the fund, which is suppose to deliver for the economy, climate and communities

Poverty and education: helping young people reach their potential

Child poverty: time for action

Everyone's problem: poverty in Scotland

"The Home Office think we’re not people": How the UK asylum system is failing the most vulnerable

"The Fixer": Derek Mackay talks budget

Derek Mackay delivers an historic budget, but his real job is just getting started

Breaking convention: fracking and Scotland

The Scottish 17/18 budget - main points

Paul Wheelhouse talks fracking, nuclear and relations with Westminster

Renewables: whither Scotland’s green revolution?

The polarising fox hunting debate

Where next for Scottish energy policy?

Tributes paid to Conservative MSP Alex Johnstone

Autumn Statement: Philip Hammond is merely a passenger

Children in care - how many reviews are needed before we get it right?

Kirsty at six months: Early enquiry

Mark McDonald: support parents and start early

International Realpolitik and 'dingying' Donald Trump: does the Scottish Government have the expertise to manage international relations?

Tech 100: 'Across government we’re going to have to see ourselves as a far more flexible organisation than we have in the past'

Scotland's Chief Scientific Adviser Sheila Rowan on being 'unreasonable'

What does Brexit mean for the future of research in Scotland?

Tech 100: ‘The last thing anyone working on social security wants to do is to become the next CAP Futures’

Exclusive: interview with COSLA chief executive Sally Loudon

Interview: Shirley-Anne Somerville has been on the road