First Minister John Swinney is one of the many political figures paying tribute to Jim Wallace who died on Thursday.

In this people's history, Kirsty Wark explores the 1970s and early 1980s, an era of shops, pop, new towns and oil, and when Scotland began to see and sell itself as distinctively Scottish. Kirsty Wark ...

THE UNION between Scotland and England in 1707 created the United Kingdom. Since then Scotland has provided prime ministers, such as Gordon Brown, intellectual luminaries like Adam Smith and David ...