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

Getting to know you: David Linden

Interview: Spirit Level Delusion author Christopher Snowdon on separating poverty and inequality

The cost of being accommodating: tourist tax for and against

Buses, bikes and walking: Is Scotland ready to ditch the car?

Michael Matheson: 'why weren’t all those politicians able to fix it?'

In it for the long haul

Mr Blobby and the game of Brexit deal or no deal

The research shaping the health of a nation

Politicians and their plates: Neil Findlay's classic breakfast

Event report: public sector data protection

Getting to know you: Paul Sweeney MP

Interview: Richard Lochhead returns to the front bench with an appreciation of life/work balance

“I have very little respect for laws” - interview with Pirate Party founder Birgitta Jónsdóttir

The science behind teaching science

Politicians and their plates: Rachael Hamilton makes a Sunday roast

STEM: is it time to ditch the acronym and shine a spotlight on the super-cool subjects it abbreviates?

Austerity, by any other name...

Politicians and their plates: Alex Cole-Hamilton makes pizza

Getting to know you: Danielle Rowley

From philosophy teacher to politician tipped as a future Tory leader

Talking openly about miscarriage: Councillor Rhiannon Spear on the decision to go public about her loss

The war on gangs

Protecting the vulnerable on both sides of the criminal divide

Interview: Humza Yousaf on tackling hate head-on