MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion

GEORGE FOGARTY reflects on the politics expressed at this year’s festival where contradictions abound, but the music kept it real

Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR

The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY