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Severin Carrell

Severin Carrell is the Guardian's Scotland editor. Twitter @severincarrell. Click here for Severin's public key

November 2025

  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says budget did not break manifesto tax pledge – as it happened

  • Anas Sarwar

    Leaders hope budget funding will boost Labour in next year’s Scotland and Wales elections

  • Google Maps screengrab of Cauldeen primary school  in Scotland

    Scottish school cancels Christmas play after ‘racist and abusive’ messages

  • Police form cordons outside Villa Park stadium in Birmingham.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Risk of Maccabi Tel Aviv facing antisemitic attacks not ‘predominant’ reason for match ban, police tell MPs – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    ‘Devastating to think of lives that could have been saved under different PM’, say Covid bereaved – as it happened

  • Wagner Moura to lead Ibsen update in unique European festival collaboration

  • MoD identifies possible UK sites for making explosives and ammunition

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer stands by McSweeney and says he has been ‘assured no briefings against ministers done from No 10’ – as it happened

October 2025

  • Rachel Reeves at 11 Downing Street.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Reeves says she should have checked rental licence had been obtained as letting agent apologises – as it happened

  • Nigel Farage.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    MPs vote down Farage’s proposal for UK to leave ECHR – as it happened

  • The prehistoric over 5000 years old standing stones - The Stones of Stenness are part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, a series of important domestic and ritual monuments built 5000 years ago in the Orkney Islands. Visitors and day trippers causing massive pressures on Orkney's neolithic world heritage sites. Orkney Island Council has rejected the "bed tax" visitor levy which Edinburgh and Aberdeen and others are introducing
Demands from Destination Orkney and the council for a new "point of entry levy" to catch all visitors to Orkney, whether its cruise passengers, motorhome travellers or bird watchers, arriving at ports and airports are being discussed. Orkney, Scotland UK 09/10/2025
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    Cruise control: could a £5 ‘entry’ fee help balance Orkney’s needs with tourist demand?

  • Sweyn Johnston (left) and Chris Purnell of Orkney council on a hill overlooking Kirkwall

    ‘Much fairer’: all profits from new Orkney windfarm to benefit locals

  • Scottish hospitality coalition urges chancellor to protect whisky industry

  • ‘There were stoats in kitchen cupboards’: AI deployed to help save Orkney’s birds

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Badenoch accuses Labour of prioritising economic ties with China over national security – as it happened

  • Swinney says Scottish government will sponsor visas for foreign care workers

  • Senior SNP figures believe Holyrood majority ‘within reach’ at May’s election

  • BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago

September 2025

  • Ethan Scott Brown

    Glasgow University accused of failing student who killed himself on graduation day

  • A pool of water amid fragments of wood on a moor

    NatureScot may raise ‘more than £100m’ in private investment for conservation

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