John Mclellan

Minority Labour rule in Edinburgh hangs by a thread as parties vie for budget deal Time could be up for Edinburgh’s creaking minority Labour administration as the horse-trading over the City of Edinburgh’s Council’s budget come to a head this week, writes... See more

Cavalcades or clean streets? The real question for Edinburgh’s Tourist Tax With six months to go before Edinburgh’s Tourist Tax goes live, a bundle of good, bad and indifferent plans have been lined up to spend the expected £50 million proceeds, writes He... See more

Is the public’s right to know really secondary to authorities’ right to save cash? Whistleblowers’ experience of Edinburgh Council’s handling of freedom of information requests shows just how much reform of the system is needed, writes Herald columnist Jo... See more

Scotland’s housing emergency deepens amid council wrangles and soaring costs The housing crisis is real, and although solutions are there to be had, politicians are doing little to solve it except to make it more difficult and complain, writes Herald colu... See more