CLEANUP efforts across Scotland kicked off today as the country began to repair the damage brought by Storm Eowyn. The country was battered yesterday by the worst storm to make landfall in ...

Donald Trump’s second presidency began with a bang, with hundreds of executive orders sending geopolitical and economic tremors across the world.

Unfortunately, pacifism as a means of challenging power is effective only against an oppressor that still holds humanity in some regard. You can lay your body on the tracks, so to speak, but unless ...

Just as we must hold the SNP’s feet to the fire over the state of the NHS, we should welcome signs that ministers are at least trying to do the right thing John Swinney’s new focus on the NHS ...

In that time First Ministers have come and gone, Cabinets have been reshuffled, coalitions have formed and collapsed – but one constant has been John Swinney. John Swinney has been at the heart of the ...

JOHN Swinney was tonight accused of deploying “granny bouncers” at the door of every A&E to turn away OAPs deemed not sick enough to come in. Rivals attacked the First Minister after he ...

John Swinney has been warned that promises of "jam tomorrow" won't fix Scotland's struggling NHS for patients or staff. Unions and opposition parties spoke out ahead of a major speech by the First ...

And so, for a few glorious moments I pictured John Swinney doing public meditation exercises on Broughty Ferry beach - palms akimbo - with fellow devotees of the esoteric Chinese spiritual movement.

John Swinney has pledged his personal “leadership and direction” to resuscitate the NHS as the First Minister unveils his blueprint to streamline funding for frontline services and make ...

John Swinney has insisted his under-fire health secretary will still be in post by the autumn. The First Minister has rebuffed calls to sack Neil Gray following a row over his use of ministerial ...

Whose side is John Swinney on? The question is prompted by the sight of the First Minister sticking by his health secretary Neil Gray. Gray had to apologise last week after it was discovered ...