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LORNA Slater has slammed “bizarre” behaviour after Unionists parties refused to back Shona Robison’s push to win employment powers for…

Speaking at First Minister’s Questions on Thursday, he said: “Immigration and asylum are reserved to the UK Government, but there’s no doubt we could be doing more in Scotland. “The ‘Freedom to Crawl’ campaign is drawing attention to the abysmal standard of accommodation provided for asylum seekers who are pregnant or who have babies and toddlers. Rooms are cramped and inadequately furnished, there’s no floor space for children to play or move around safely, there are multiple safety issues, no respect for privacy and alleged infractions against the rules are published publicly...

GORDON Brown was back on stage this week, stumbling around like a pitiful old cabaret singer. His songs have sounded better in days gone by. Someone senior in the Labour Party really needs to sit down with Brown and gently let him down. His interventions are becoming ­increasingly ­detached from political ­discourse and are now actually harming Labour’s already ­tenuous hold on ­constitutional affairs. At the heart of Brown’s act is a superficially appealing idea which, like a cheap Ikea wardrobe, falls apart before it is fully formed. His intellectual instinct, borne out of de...

PREMIUM EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - OCTOBER 15: First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond and Prime Minister David Cameron sign a referendum agreement at St Andrew's House in Edinburgh on October 15, 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland (Photo by Gordon Terris - Pool/Getty WHEN each of my daughters was born, I created an email address for them. Every so often throughout their lives, I email them with the intention of handing over the password when they fly the nest. I email them on their birthdays, or when they win something, or when we have a major family event, or even just when I manage to capture a pho...

THERE are all kinds of areas upon which we can debate independence. We are all entitled to our opinions. That is what democracy is all about. When it comes to arguing there is no mandate for a new vote on independence, even after Scotland elected a majority of pro-independence MSPs … that’s pretty much the opposite of what democracy is all about. So far we’ve heard all the usual soundbites from the usual suspects – the 2014 vote was once in a generation (despite the Smith Commission saying nothing prevents Scotland going independent in the future), now is not the time, focus on ...