Scotland
Scottish Castles
The landscapes of Scotland are dotted with beautiful castles. Here’s a look at some significant Scottish castles.
Country Diary: Loch Ruthven
Ray Collier: Sitting in the large, comfortable hide on the edge of the loch, a few miles south of Inverness, the scene looked idyllic.
The University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow, with it's rich history and tradition in Scotland, is an excellent tourist attraction for history and architecture buffs visiting the country.
Biggest Quake in 24 Years Shakes and Stirs Uk
East Midlands at epicenter as tremors are felt from London to Scotland
Harry Potters Hogwart Express Spotted in Fort William Scotland
The real story behind Hogwarts Express and the Jacobite Steam Train, which runs from Fort William Scotland.
All Eyes on the Greens
Michael White: In Scotland, all eyes are on the veteran independent Nat, Margo MacDonald, and the two Greens who criticized the budget last night
The Spokeshave
Allan Fyfe, proprietor of Lethenty Mill Furniture in Scotland, compares and contrasts antique, Stanley and Veritas spokeshaves.
Burns Birls in His Grave
Roy Hattersley: None of Scotland's contemporary artists are forging a cultural identity distinct from England.
Great Britain is going to break up - Scotland will leave it
The Scottish nationalists now have more seats in the Scottish parliament than any other. Their single political aim is to leave Great Britain. It was a big shock. Great Britain as a country will sooner or later be reduced to a rump of England, Wales and Northern Ireland It is inevitable that sooner or later, Scotland will break away from Great Britain and become independent.
The Power Of Kilts
What do you do when you see a man wearing a skirt, I mean kilt?
Voters Want Change. Brown Has to Show He Can Deliver It
Defeat in Scotland shows the scale of the task. But Reid's departure consigns to history the biggest hurdle: factionalism. By Jackie Ashley
We are all Scots today!
Precisely 300 years after the May 1st, 1707 Acts of Union, an election in Scotland on May 3rd is about to bring an Independentist party to power. The Scottish Nationalist Party represents Scots’ premier choice for the years ahead.
Scotland is Brown's Testing Ground for His Campaign Against Cameron
He has great faith in ideas and arguments: present your case, shred your opponents', and you win. Is politics really like that? By Jonathan Freedland
Diary
Bless Alex Salmond. Not only does the man who would be Scotland's next first minister launch his campaign beneath a statue of Mel Gibson, he reveals he was boy soprano in the only Scottish touring production of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors! Amazing. By Jon Henley
Country Diary: Loch Ruthven
This freshwater loch, about 12 miles south of Inverness, is the most important British site for breeding Slavonian grebes, and the reason for my visit last week was to see if the birds had arrived back from their winter quarters along the coast...By Ray Collier
Kosovo Breakaway Could Raise Scot Nats' Hopes
The breakaway British region of Scotland could be among the beneficiaries of this week's expected UN recommendation that Kosovo be granted provisional independence from Serbia, leading in time to full sovereign status. By Simon Tisdall
Ballot Dancing
The baffling array of electoral systems in Scotland unavoidably leads to voter apathy. By Peter Preston
Dounreay's Catalogue of Idiocy is a Cautionary Tale of Nuclear Danger
One thing would have prevented decades of radioactive pollution in the far north of Scotland: open government. By George Monbiot
Flower of Scotland
The play that has taken the Edinburgh festival by storm shows what a truly national theatre can do. By Charlotte Higgins
Scotland Yard Looks Into Cameraman's Murder
British police are to investigate the killing of James Miller, the British cameraman shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Gaza three years ago. By Chris Tryhorn.
Labour's Pact With Scotland is Threatened By the Snp
Labour's pact with Scotland is threatened by the SNP and a pro-UK prime minister in waiting. By Peter Preston
The Grumpy Edinburgh
I returned recently to my home town of Edinburgh a city well-known for its surliness (if not Britain as a whole) and from the Black Cab grumps to shop assistants who assume that "they are always right" bad words I saw it as a tourist would. But things are curently changing - for the American Way!
Diary
How well is Scotland adapting to the smoking ban in pubs and restaurants, something the rest of us will soon have to come to terms with?..By Duncan Campbell
Breaking Out of the Box
The National Theatre of Scotland has shown its London counterpart how to pass the Olivier test. By Mark Espiner
Country Diary: Loch Ruthven
My route took me past fields bordering the river Nairn where the dippers, one of the earliest breeding birds in the Highlands, are now ...By Ray Collier
G8 Protest Banned After Violence Flares
An official march to the edge of the Gleneagles grounds to mark the opening of the G8 summit in Scotland was cancelled today because of trouble involving protesters, police confirmed.
Remapping the Borders
Eight years after they were comprehensively routed north of the border, the Conservatives are still saddled with the status of a minor party in Scotland. Jonathan Freedland
James the First
Hywel Williams: At last post-devolutionary Scotland has the subversive music it merits. James MacMillan, the Scottish composer, is that rare beast - the musician as polemicist. Aesthetic power is not supposed to confront political power with quite his degree of passionate engagement.
Behind the Black Watch
Ewen Macaskill: History demands that Scotland's regiments merge. Old soldiers, and serving ones, have been campaigning hard in Scotland to save Scottish regiments from merger. An announcement is expected from Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, today.
Tales of Tartan Turncoats
Scotland's official history still languishes in the cardboard cut-out stable of a largely fictional past. The real Rob Roy MacGregor, it was reported with shock last week, bears little resemblance to his romantic image.
Kirsty Scott: Come to Scotland (byob)
The Scottish parliament begins its overhaul of the licensing laws this week. Time for a clear head. The tickets for last week's Champions League fixture between Rangers and FC Copenhagen didn't specify BYOB. But that didn't stop the Scottish fans bringing their own carryout to Denmark to celebrate the Glasgow club's 2-1 victory.
BBC Has Bad News For Nessie Fans
Scotland’s most famous tourist attraction really is fiction, not fact, according to British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) investigators who recently reported that they were unable to find the Loch Ness monster, known as "Nessie" to her friends.
Recognition 60 Years on for a Young Heroine of the French Resistance
A woman living anonymously among her neighbours in Scotland is to be awarded France's highest honour for her heroism during the second world war. Marguerite Garden, 77, will be presented with the Légion d'Honneur in Edinburgh this year in recognition of her role in the resistance...
Royal Bank's US arm faces allegations of race discrimination
A Royal Bank of Scotland subsidiary is being accused by a US campaigning group of refusing loans to people on racial grounds.
Why I Wish My Vote Was in Llangollen
In Scotland and Wales social democracy is not dead, it's thriving. Every Labour councillor who loses a seat in Thursday's local elections will hold the government at Westminster directly responsible.
Migration Myopia
The fall in Scotland's population means it wants to attract outsiders. Soon, so will everyone else. Scotland's population is declining and its first minister, Jack McConnell, wants more people to come north - now there's a story guaranteed to get an argument going round our family breakfast table.
Hills are alive with sound of Italian gunfire
Alberto Banchetti loves Scotland. He is passionate about the scenery, the people - and the wildlife. Blasting pigeons from the sky over Fife last week with a Benellie semi-automatic shotgun, the 31-year-old Roman was in a state of bliss.
Tim Luckhurst: Pantomime on the Mound
Scotland's 'wee pretendy parliament' has failed. London should threaten abolition to make it see sense. The Scottish parliament did not organise a party to mark its 1,000th day.
The University of Glasgow, with it's rich history and tradition in Scotland, is an excellent tourist attraction for history and architecture buffs visiting the country.
Biggest Quake in 24 Years Shakes and Stirs Uk
East Midlands at epicenter as tremors are felt from London to Scotland
Harry Potters Hogwart Express Spotted in Fort William Scotland
The real story behind Hogwarts Express and the Jacobite Steam Train, which runs from Fort William Scotland.
All Eyes on the Greens
Michael White: In Scotland, all eyes are on the veteran independent Nat, Margo MacDonald, and the two Greens who criticized the budget last night
The Spokeshave
Allan Fyfe, proprietor of Lethenty Mill Furniture in Scotland, compares and contrasts antique, Stanley and Veritas spokeshaves.
Burns Birls in His Grave
Roy Hattersley: None of Scotland's contemporary artists are forging a cultural identity distinct from England.
Great Britain is going to break up - Scotland will leave it
The Scottish nationalists now have more seats in the Scottish parliament than any other. Their single political aim is to leave Great Britain. It was a big shock. Great Britain as a country will sooner or later be reduced to a rump of England, Wales and Northern Ireland It is inevitable that sooner or later, Scotland will break away from Great Britain and become independent.
The Power Of Kilts
What do you do when you see a man wearing a skirt, I mean kilt?
Voters Want Change. Brown Has to Show He Can Deliver It
Defeat in Scotland shows the scale of the task. But Reid's departure consigns to history the biggest hurdle: factionalism. By Jackie Ashley
We are all Scots today!
Precisely 300 years after the May 1st, 1707 Acts of Union, an election in Scotland on May 3rd is about to bring an Independentist party to power. The Scottish Nationalist Party represents Scots’ premier choice for the years ahead.
Scotland is Brown's Testing Ground for His Campaign Against Cameron
He has great faith in ideas and arguments: present your case, shred your opponents', and you win. Is politics really like that? By Jonathan Freedland
Diary
Bless Alex Salmond. Not only does the man who would be Scotland's next first minister launch his campaign beneath a statue of Mel Gibson, he reveals he was boy soprano in the only Scottish touring production of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors! Amazing. By Jon Henley
Country Diary: Loch Ruthven
This freshwater loch, about 12 miles south of Inverness, is the most important British site for breeding Slavonian grebes, and the reason for my visit last week was to see if the birds had arrived back from their winter quarters along the coast...By Ray Collier
Kosovo Breakaway Could Raise Scot Nats' Hopes
The breakaway British region of Scotland could be among the beneficiaries of this week's expected UN recommendation that Kosovo be granted provisional independence from Serbia, leading in time to full sovereign status. By Simon Tisdall
Ballot Dancing
The baffling array of electoral systems in Scotland unavoidably leads to voter apathy. By Peter Preston
Dounreay's Catalogue of Idiocy is a Cautionary Tale of Nuclear Danger
One thing would have prevented decades of radioactive pollution in the far north of Scotland: open government. By George Monbiot
Flower of Scotland
The play that has taken the Edinburgh festival by storm shows what a truly national theatre can do. By Charlotte Higgins
Scotland Yard Looks Into Cameraman's Murder
British police are to investigate the killing of James Miller, the British cameraman shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Gaza three years ago. By Chris Tryhorn.
Labour's Pact With Scotland is Threatened By the Snp
Labour's pact with Scotland is threatened by the SNP and a pro-UK prime minister in waiting. By Peter Preston
The Grumpy Edinburgh
I returned recently to my home town of Edinburgh a city well-known for its surliness (if not Britain as a whole) and from the Black Cab grumps to shop assistants who assume that "they are always right" bad words I saw it as a tourist would. But things are curently changing - for the American Way!
Diary
How well is Scotland adapting to the smoking ban in pubs and restaurants, something the rest of us will soon have to come to terms with?..By Duncan Campbell
Breaking Out of the Box
The National Theatre of Scotland has shown its London counterpart how to pass the Olivier test. By Mark Espiner
Country Diary: Loch Ruthven
My route took me past fields bordering the river Nairn where the dippers, one of the earliest breeding birds in the Highlands, are now ...By Ray Collier
G8 Protest Banned After Violence Flares
An official march to the edge of the Gleneagles grounds to mark the opening of the G8 summit in Scotland was cancelled today because of trouble involving protesters, police confirmed.
Remapping the Borders
Eight years after they were comprehensively routed north of the border, the Conservatives are still saddled with the status of a minor party in Scotland. Jonathan Freedland
James the First
Hywel Williams: At last post-devolutionary Scotland has the subversive music it merits. James MacMillan, the Scottish composer, is that rare beast - the musician as polemicist. Aesthetic power is not supposed to confront political power with quite his degree of passionate engagement.
Behind the Black Watch
Ewen Macaskill: History demands that Scotland's regiments merge. Old soldiers, and serving ones, have been campaigning hard in Scotland to save Scottish regiments from merger. An announcement is expected from Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, today.
Tales of Tartan Turncoats
Scotland's official history still languishes in the cardboard cut-out stable of a largely fictional past. The real Rob Roy MacGregor, it was reported with shock last week, bears little resemblance to his romantic image.
Kirsty Scott: Come to Scotland (byob)
The Scottish parliament begins its overhaul of the licensing laws this week. Time for a clear head. The tickets for last week's Champions League fixture between Rangers and FC Copenhagen didn't specify BYOB. But that didn't stop the Scottish fans bringing their own carryout to Denmark to celebrate the Glasgow club's 2-1 victory.
BBC Has Bad News For Nessie Fans
Scotland’s most famous tourist attraction really is fiction, not fact, according to British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) investigators who recently reported that they were unable to find the Loch Ness monster, known as "Nessie" to her friends.
Recognition 60 Years on for a Young Heroine of the French Resistance
A woman living anonymously among her neighbours in Scotland is to be awarded France's highest honour for her heroism during the second world war. Marguerite Garden, 77, will be presented with the Légion d'Honneur in Edinburgh this year in recognition of her role in the resistance...
Royal Bank's US arm faces allegations of race discrimination
A Royal Bank of Scotland subsidiary is being accused by a US campaigning group of refusing loans to people on racial grounds.
Why I Wish My Vote Was in Llangollen
In Scotland and Wales social democracy is not dead, it's thriving. Every Labour councillor who loses a seat in Thursday's local elections will hold the government at Westminster directly responsible.
Migration Myopia
The fall in Scotland's population means it wants to attract outsiders. Soon, so will everyone else. Scotland's population is declining and its first minister, Jack McConnell, wants more people to come north - now there's a story guaranteed to get an argument going round our family breakfast table.
Hills are alive with sound of Italian gunfire
Alberto Banchetti loves Scotland. He is passionate about the scenery, the people - and the wildlife. Blasting pigeons from the sky over Fife last week with a Benellie semi-automatic shotgun, the 31-year-old Roman was in a state of bliss.
Tim Luckhurst: Pantomime on the Mound
Scotland's 'wee pretendy parliament' has failed. London should threaten abolition to make it see sense. The Scottish parliament did not organise a party to mark its 1,000th day.