The SLP has always been best when it's been boldest, such as when they brought in free healthcare for the elderly, abolished student fees and introduced the smoking ban. Unfortunately little of that boldness has remained since they entered opposition.

The Scottish Parliament is to consider an outright ban on prostitution, after a Labour MSP called for paying for sex in any way to be outlawed. T...

Scottish voters should be given the chance to vote on abolishing the Scottish Parliament, according to veteran Labour politician Tam Dalyell. “I ...

Johann Lamont has been elected as leader of the Labour party in Scotland. The MSP for Glasgow Pollok was formerly the party's deputy leader under Iain...

A Labour leadership candidate has issued a stark warning about the future of the Scottish party in the final week before a winner is chosen. Tom Ha...

Labour is apparently ruled by its Scottish members, damaging the party in England, one of its senior backbenchers has claimed. Former welfare minis...

Labour MP Douglas Alexander has warned the party in Scotland it must reconnect with voters to compete with the SNP after its "bad beating" in May's el...

FACTS AND BELIEFS - SHARED AND PERSONAL Let's start with a few facts, ones that are accepted as fact - I hope - across the range of opinions on the s...

When I was a child in Glasgow, a clout was something I was regularly threatened with, and often received. Never from my parent or relatives, but often...

Labour leader Ed Miliband told the BBC that the Scottish party leadership hopefuls were all ...

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What does a Scottish journalist or commentator do when real thoughts about Scotland's exciting and demanding political scene desert him? Why, he write...

"The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies on...

The Edinburgh Tram project has suffered another embarrassing setback after councillors decided the tram network would not even stop in the very centre...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Labour MP Tom Harris has emerged as a potential candidate for the role of party leader at Holyrood. The Glasgow South politici...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Labour MP Tom Harris has emerged as a potential candidate for the role of party leader at Holyrood. The Glasgow South politici...

UK Government departments and national media outlets frequently forget that many Westminster edicts only affect England; but one of the most surprising examples is the Labour Party. Yes, the political party which delivered on political devolution, as part of its policy on UK constitutional reform, has singularly failed to devolve itself. As a result, it could be said to have lost the plot, certainly in Scotland.