“Delighted”.   It’s a word I challenge myself never to use. If you regularly share news on social media, as I do, then you’ll know it’s the adjective we all tend to reach for – but it can’t always be...

‘No Scotland no party?’ How Scotland’s mythology is weaponised against us, and what we can do about it

In the first of a new series of monthly CEO blogs, Carolyn Lochhead, chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, shares her thoughts post-election on Alcohol Focus Scotland’s hopes for the new Parliame...

One in five alcohol products sold in the UK fail to meet minimum voluntary labelling guidelines set by the alcohol industry regulator, the Portman Group, according to new analysis of over 530 alcohol ...

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WE were told those days were past. And yet, after last month’s Scottish Cup quarter-final between Rangers and Celtic, we were confronted once…

The emotional assisted dying debate was a display of Holyrood at its best.

Alcohol Focus Scotland has warned Scotland’s next MSPs that it’s time to get serious about tackling the cost of harm caused by alcohol

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3/5: I'm glad Germaine Greer wrote this book and did so much to advance the cause of women's rights, but coming to this book in 2025, it does feel pretty dated. She cites what feel like quite random e...

4/5: There's a lot going on in this book. Rika, a journalist trying to make her way in the relentless, exhausting world of Japanese magazine publishing, interviews Manako Kaji, a jailed killer who has...

3/5: Roxane Gay's essays are readable, thoughtful and packed with points that need to be made as parts of the western world retreat from any notion that women are equal citizens. However, I found this...

5/5: So far, I've never met a Kristin Hannah book that I didn't love. She has a gift for telling big stories about history and society through the eyes of women who were there. In this book, she tran...

The SFHA is the representative organisation for Scotland's Housing Association sector

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