Holyrood
Johann Lamont: SNP need to ‘grow up’
Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont has called on SNP backbenchers at Holyrood to grow up and stop sucking up to the Scottish government.
Westminster must follow Holyrood’s lead on train fares
Rail fares and ticketing are unnecessarily expensive and complicated - it's a mess that successive governments have ducked responsibility for sorting out. The Scottish government has now taken action, cutting fares and pledging to remove pricing anomalies. But will the same deal be extended to train users south of the border?
“Financially illiterate”? Scottish Labour must do better
Ed Jacobs reports on the latest SNP/Labour row in Scotland - this time on corporation tax.
Salmondshambles: Wee Eck’s dark day becomes a bleak week
Alex Salmond's dark day has become a week from Hell for the Scottish first minister, as the SNP's independence campaign limps from one disaster to the next.
Salmondshambles: “Barefaced liar” Alex Salmond suffers “darkest day” as first minister
Ed Jacobs reports on Alex Salmond's "darkest day" since coming to power, branded a "barefaced liar" by Scottish Labour after a series of gaffes and falsehoods.
Lamont questions future of universal freebies – mature politics or political suicide?
Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont this week gave a speech challenging the orthodoxies of Scottish politics, threatening an end to some universal benefits.