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Police look on as Rangers fans stream into Glasgow city centre streets on Saturday. Many officers were later to come under attack. I HAVE just read Kevin McKenna’s scathing comments regarding Police Scotland and its response to recent public order situations ("Poverty and political failure lie at the heart of violence", The Herald, May 17). The implementation of Police Scotland was widely regarded as a shambles (and had been anticipated well in advance by anyone with any foresight). Polic...

Daryl Worthington , May 5th, 2021 09:22 From drip powered cave orchestras to raw sax improvisations and stunning electronics, Daryl Worthington finds hope and strangeness on cassettes in May Eilien aka Ellen Virman Back in 1992 Bruce Sterling described cyberspace as the place where a phone conversation seems to happen – not in the devices themselves but some imagined zone in between. The boundaries of that space have expanded exponentially since the nineties, but perhaps the biggest surprise...

PERHAPS those of us of a unionist persuasion are too negative about the result of another referendum on independence. The much-vaunted SNP achieved 50 per cent of the Scottish vote in the General Election of 2015. Research on Google suggests that that was its zenith. In 2014, more than 55 per cent voted for the Union; in 2016, 47% voted for separatist parties; in 2017 37% of Scots voted for the SNP, and in the 2019 General Election, 54% of Scottish votes were for Unionist parties. Nicol...

She asks why this should be so difficult. There are several answers to her question. First, many of these candidates have spent years battling for nominations which will not be conceded lightly, especially if the chosen one is a Tory candidate. Second, both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have had their fingers severely burned in recent years following ill-advised alliances with the Tories – both are facing wipe-out in Scotland. Third, modern politics is a ruthless business, and to a...