Keep it clean, Salmond tells ‘cybernats’

Alex Salmond urges supporters to avoid following a ‘negative agenda’ in online debates

Artist’s work ‘too negative’ for University library

Reopening of Edinburgh University library will feature a magnificent medieval Psalter, but without a new work from Turner Prize-winner Douglas Gordon

Salmond advisors urge private finance for Forth crossing

Economic advisors to Alex Salmond havew urged a change of course to private funding for new Forth road bridge

Sale provokes fresh attack by NTS critics

‘Incompetence’ alleged over loss of £3.5 million on sale of the National Trust for Scotland’s Edinburgh headquarters

Lawyers let off steam in the kitchen

White-collar workers in Scotland have a new way of winding down – peeling potatoes and preparing snails for restaurants

Gillian Bowditch: Susan Boyle’s dream is an American morality tale

Strip away the schmaltz and The Britain’s Got Talent singer represents something Americans have always craved

On the trail of ladies of the night

The 1775 Ranger’s Impartial List Of the Ladies of Pleasure in Edinburgh sparked an obsession for one woman

Joan McAlpine: Cybernats are the new Pamphleteers

I have tried to engage with the political blogging community in Scotland – and it has been a learning experience

Travel guides paint a bad picture of Scotland

Scotland For Dummies and Frommer’s Edinburgh and Glasgow say Scots are aggressive people and difficult to understand

Turner prizewinner in brush with university

Glasgow-born artist Douglas Gordon walks away from ‘negative’ Edinburgh University commission with zero expenses

Poet Laureate's Christmas verse attacks society

Carol Ann Duffy uses her festive offering as a stinging commentary on much that is wrong in the country and the world today

Taskforce launched to prevent horse crime

Police support HorseWatch Scotland in tackling the increase of organised crime gangs targeting prize horses

Dundee honours the voice of Mickey Mouse

Jimmy MacDonald, chosen by Walt Disney to provide Mickey’s voice, will feature in a campaign to highlight Dundonians