Inside Politics

Elaine Stewart: Poverty is worse than it was in the 80s

Much of Elaine Stewart’s constituency still suffers from the effects of the mining industry collapse in the 1980s but the new MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock tells Ruaraidh Gilmour that she hopes to reverse some of the damage

Russell Findlay: I'm a Tory because it's the anti-establishment party

The new Scottish Conservatives leader talks to Mandy Rhodes about a career as a journalist taking on organised crime gangs

Political Spin: Rachael Hamilton

The Poverty Line: 'We've always been an enclave of issues surrounded by wealth'

Two-child cap: How the SNP outmanoeuvred Labour

'Edinburgh is just one of the best cities in the world'

Facing the Music: Why the fight is on again to save instrument tuition in schools

Dear Green Places: How expanding Glasgow's Local Nature Reserves can help climate and communities

Jackie Dunbar: 'I've got a voice that only a Hoover should hear'

Seamus Logan: My earliest memory? My mother crying when Kennedy was shot

Sarah Boyack: People always want cheap hits – I’m not that type of politician

Hydro renaissance: An old solution to fix a new problem

Scottish Budget: Who will broker a deal with the SNP government?

'Sometimes party politics is not the best route'

In context: Dual Mandates

"We need to spend a lot of money on social work"

Building a difference: What happened to former 'Carbuncle' towns?

Colin Beattie: 'My dancing will absolutely clear the dance floor'

Crime & Punishment: Is Scotland's justice sector serving women?

Getting to Know You: Elaine Stewart

Liz Smith: Eljamel patients deserve justice and I will continue to fight for it

In Context: The Climate Change Bill

Criminal Code: policing in the digital era

Angela Constance: I’m not completely naive or blind to the reality that we will always need prisons

Solicitor General Ruth Charteris: 'I believe in justice'

Stars and Strife: How America embraced division to elect Donald Trump