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Our reporter, Harry Ness unwraps our exclusive news on housing in north Edinburgh. The City of Edinburgh Council has confirmed that there are approximately 243 empty homes in north-east Edinburgh alone, despite there being a declared state of housing emergency across the city. “There are 243 empty homes in the North-East locality." In response to a request submitted under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 , the council declared that 243 council homes remain empty

Many teachers in Scotland have to take up marking work for Qualifications Scotland, on top of full-time teaching hours. An Edinburgh-based teacher has warned that the current workload model is ‘inequitable’ without class-contact reform, as negotiations between teaching unions and the Scottish Government continue. The teacher, who wishes to be kept anonymous, detailed concerns to The Edinburgh Economist from the teaching industry around workload and class contact time: “The Sc

Edinburgh's iconic hotel sector has seen an increase in capacity, but a decrease in visitors. A HVS report into Edinburgh's hotel market has revealed a boom in hotel capacity, with the number of rooms in Scotland's capital rising by 23% from 2014, reaching 19,000. Despite this, tourist numbers to Scotland's capital city have decreased by 1.5% year-on-year. In January this year, The City of Edinburgh Council confirmed that it would be introducing a Visitor Levy (tourist tax),

Lord Offord says he will resign his peerage and stand as a Reform UK candidate for the Holyrood election in May. Nigel Farage unveiled the defection of a Conservative peer at Reform rally at the Macdonald Inchyra hotel in Falkirk on Saturday. Lord Malcolm Offord, a Greenock-born politician and financier was the serving Treasurer of the Scottish Tories and served on the Lords front bench from 2021 until 2024. He was Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and campaigned against

Your Party members and politicians gathered in Glasgow to set out their stall ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election. The conference has followed by defection of Three Scottish Green councillors to Your Party and speech by Your Party co-leader Zarah Sultana MP. She endorsed a second Scottish independence referendum, and called to continue solidarity with Palestine. The first Scottish rally of the new party at Maryhill community hall was attended by left-wing activists across Sco

The Green Party has seen a surge in popularity, thanks to its new leader – Zack Polanski, who achieved a landslide victory in the Greens' leadership election in September this year. According to the latest YouGov poll, the Green Party almost doubled their potential vote share since Polanski became the party leader. There is only one party in British politics with such phenomenal popularity growth – Farage’s Reform UK, which is undoubtedly Green party’s main rival. The current

John Swinney has established a comfortable lead in the polls for the SNP The Edinburgh Economist co-editor, Bohdan Tymoshchuk interviewed First Minister John Swinney at the 'Our Future' conference in Glasgow. The topics of conference was education, discrimination, mental health, climate and poverty. Guests of the event were invited to have a dialogue about their vision on future of diverse and inclusive Scotland with each other and religious leaders. The key moment of the aft

Following a landslide defeat in the 2024 general election, the Conservative party across the UK saw a downfall in polling, and the Scottish Tories are facing being behind Scottish Labour and Reform UK, while the SNP top the polls in Scotland. The Tories continue to trail in the polls, and UK Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, refused to say in an interview to Sky News that the Conservatives are going to be successful in next May’s devolved elections. The Conservative Party i