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6 days ago | 
climatechangenews.com | Nicola Sturgeon |Ben Wilson |Megan Rowling
Nicola Sturgeon is an MSP (Member of the Scottish Parliament) and former First Minister of Scotland. Ben Wilson is International Policy Lead for Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. The world is at a crossroads. The impacts of climate change are destabilising societies, causing conflict, and deepening economic hardship.
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1 month ago | 
dailybusinessgroup.co.uk | Terry Murden |Nicola Sturgeon
Scotland’s former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has expressed relief after being told she will face no action in the Police Scotland investigation into the SNP’s finances. The announcement came as her estranged husband, ex-party chief executive Peter Murrell, appeared at a private hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court charged with embezzlement. The 60-year-old made no plea and was granted bail.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Nicola Sturgeon
For the best part of two decades, European politics was dominated by Angela Merkel. As chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 until 2021, she was admired by millions not just in her own country but around the globe. Freedom, her memoir, is an engrossing read. It reminds us of the rational, forensic, evidence-driven approach she brought to governing, and provokes a sense of nostalgia for all that she represented.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
bbc.co.uk | Nicola Sturgeon
The Scottish government's plans for a National Care Service are on the verge of collapse as the Greens debate whether to withdraw support for the flagship scheme. The service, which would transfer social care responsibility from councils to a new national body, has already been delayed for three years due to cost saving measures.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Nicola Sturgeon
Agreeing to review Boris Johnson’s memoir Unleashed seemed like a good idea when I made the commitment. I enjoy the process of encapsulating big books in a few hundred words. And in the case of Johnson, my interactions with him while he was UK prime minister and I was Scottish first minister give me some personal insight in the task. That was my thinking. But when I was confronted with the reality of reading the thing, it didn’t seem such a great wheeze after all.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Nicola Sturgeon
Hillary Clinton is one of my political heroes. In the times when I shouldered the responsibilities of leadership, I often looked to her for inspiration. Running for and holding public office is tough for anyone – rightly so – but it is harder for women. We are held to different standards. Less likely to be given credit for our successes, more likely to be crucified for our failures.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Nicola Sturgeon
Ten years. It is hard to believe. So much has changed since those heady days of 2014 when Scotland came so close – but not close enough – to choosing an independent future. As I look back now, it feels – to borrow from the famous Charles Dickens novel, A Tale of Two Cities – that it was both the best of times and the worst of times. The country was alive with democratic debate. In every home, workplace and street corner, people were discussing how to build a better, fairer Scotland.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Nicola Sturgeon
Hillary Clinton is one of my political heroes. In the times when I shouldered the responsibilities of leadership, I often looked to her for inspiration. Running for and holding public office is tough for anyone – rightly so – but it is harder for women. We are held to different standards. Less likely to be given credit for our successes, more likely to be crucified for our failures.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nicola Sturgeon
Tony Blair’s first book since 2010’s A Journey is a fascinating treatise on leadership – though I suspect it will leave some of the cohort it is aimed at wishing he had delved deeper into his own experiences, turning a book of general interest into one of unique insight. Before I expand, some disclosure.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Nicola Sturgeon
…and thus her gift – the art of writing – will always represent a desire to efface dualities, dissolve hierarchies and transcend boundaries. These words about Nisaba, an ancient goddess of writing, from the British-Turkish writer Elif Shafak’s new novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky, apply just as easily to the author. In this book, Shafak burnishes her reputation as a supreme storyteller.
