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Tom Fornelli: There isn't a team in the Big 12 I wouldn't buy as a College Football Playoff contender because it's a league that could be won by any member. All you have to do is look back to last ...
The Stornoway store is the only one in the Tesco chain not to open seven days a week, it was perhaps inevitable that supermarket bosses should want to iron out this curious anomaly.
SNP activists say John Swinney ’s framing of the by-election as a “two-horse race” between the SNP and Reform UK helped clear a path for Labour’s win – despite members warning party HQ ahead of time.
John Swinney is a flawed politician, for sure, but if his critics within the SNP want to win the next Scottish Parliamentary election, they’ll bite their tongues and get behind him.
JOHN Swinney let Jenny Gilruth dodge a grilling on school violence. We can reveal the First Minister signed off the SNP Education Secretary’s absence two months before the Holyrood Q&A on the c… ...
Mr Swinney pointed to it on Monday as a success: “The creation of a single Scottish Police service has led to over £200 million in savings over legacy arrangements, while crime has continued to ...
John Swinney has defended his decision to call the Hamilton by-election a “two-horse race” between the SNP and Reform UK, despite Labour’s victory in the vote.
John Swinney has said Scots who voted for Reform in a by-election last week were “angry”, not racist. The First Minister was asked on the BBC Scotland’s Sunday Show if those who backed ...
But competence should be the minimum, not the message. And under this government, even that is in doubt. John Swinney may be a decent man, but he is a serial political loser.
John Swinney may be the SNP’s best bet when it comes to keeping the party together, but that doesn’t mean he’s good enough to lead Scotland Like any good bank manager, John Swinney has a ...