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Society

Education, health, housing, community life and the social texture of Scotland — how we live, work and look after each other.

Scotland's NHS workforce pipeline: the shortfall the workforce plan does not close

Niamh Buchanan · 28 April 2026

UKGC vs offshore: what Scottish players need to know in 2026

Iain Crawford · 23 April 2026

This was part of the opening of the Glenbuck Heritage Village, restored by…

Alastair Osborne · 2020-08-05

How the city has changed!

Anthony Seaton · 2021-04-15

Covid is still around, proving difficult to shrug off

Bill Magee · 2023-04-05

We dreaded the arrival of the telegraph boy on his bicycle who only brought…

Anthony Seaton · 2022-08-08

The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil , Bill Paterson responds with…

Bill Paterson · 2023-05-06

Fifty years ago, in 1970, the Glasgow Citizens Theatre for Youth devised and…

Bill Paterson · 2020-08-05

But until very recently, unlike millions of people worldwide, I'd never been…

Andrew Hook · 2019-11-18

My abiding childhood memory of the little towns of Ayrshire was the variable…

Bill Jamieson · 2020-08-05

First do no harm: I hope it is still the case that all medical students have…

Anthony Seaton · 2020-12-02

He had previously founded Schule Schloss Salem in Germany in the 1920s until…

Allan Shiach · 2021-03-16

It's fast approaching 100 years since the discovery of insulin

B Magee C Holme · 2021-01-26

Clever ideas reinforcing our reputation for sheer ingenuity just requiring to…

Bill Magee · 2022-06-05

I heard it again, this time with respect to the problems of the NHS

Anthony Seaton · 2023-01-29

We are all thinking about how best to have a safe Christmas

Alastair Osborne · 2020-12-16

It was in the back room of the Hare and Hounds in Islington that I first met…

Bill Paterson · 2022-11-23

She remained closely involved in the work of the clinic until her death in 1951

Barbara Millar · 2019-10-14

Dr Martens boots, her brother's jackets and cardigans 10 times too big for her

Amy Campbell SSYWY · 2021-03-08

Back in 1995, the was a paper journal founded and edited by the remarkable…

Anthony Seaton · 2023-11-30

I suspect that many of you have had, appropriately during the season of…

Anthony Seaton · 2023-01-29

They withheld their usual partisan cheerleading as they contemplated having…

Bill Paterson · 2020-08-05

There is a fifth element of the environment that is sometimes forgotten as it…

Anthony Seaton · 2022-01-27

A mother's dying turns pain into poetry

Alan Fisher · 2015-06-05