Alasdair Soussi

Decades af­ter the end of the British Em­pire, many South Asian Britons are still grap­pling with the monar­chi­cal lega­cy.

Health Sec­re­tary Humza Yousaf and Fi­nance Sec­re­tary Kate Forbes, both be­low 40, are stand­ing to suc­ceed Stur­geon.

Scots vot­ed to stay in the union nine years ago, but a new cul­tur­al con­flict with Lon­don has restart­ed a heat­ed de­bate.

Pro-in­de­pen­dence ac­tivists torn over pos­si­bil­i­ty that cri­sis-hit British prime min­is­ter may be forced to re­sign.

Glas­gow due to host UN’s cli­mate con­fer­ence seen by many as the last chance to avert a glob­al en­vi­ron­men­tal cat­a­stro­phe.

Some see event as a chance to stake a claim for state­hood, but the UK gov’t is re­port­ed­ly try­ing to side­line Ed­in­burgh.

The Scot­tish Na­tion­al Par­ty took 64 of the 129 par­lia­men­tary seats up for grabs, just one short of an over­all ma­jor­i­ty.

A ma­jor­i­ty vic­to­ry would hand Scot­tish na­tion­al­ists the im­pe­tus to push hard­er for a sec­ond in­de­pen­dence ref­er­en­dum.

Roza Sal­ih, who ar­rived in Scot­land at 12, says she is com­mit­ted to fight­ing for hu­man rights and sov­er­eign­ty.

For­mer Scot­tish first min­is­ter to launch new po­lit­i­cal par­ty ahead of up­com­ing par­lia­men­tary elec­tions.