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.

Carter's inaugural words will one day be the political epitaph of John Swinney. The First Minister, like Ford, is a conciliatory, decent man whose defining, lasting legacy with his party and his ...

John Swinney rules out the Scottish Government introducing any ban on cats. He spoke as he opened the first 'hydrogen homes' ...

Writing in his regular Record column, the Scottish Labour leader says John Swinney's years at the heart of the SNP Government ...

First Minister’s claim about rise of green sources of power ‘reeks of SNP secrecy and cover-up’, say Tories John Swinney claimed that Scotland’s electricity consumption that came from ...

Scotland’s First Minister has insisted there “must be no ethnic cleansing”, after Donald Trump declared the US could “take over the Gaza Strip”. The US president’s claims were met with concern from ...