He is a politician from ... Donald Dewar. Get Scotland's top politics newsletter straight to your inbox. A job as a speechwriter for Labour leader John Smith followed while later he worked as ...

If Brexit was a mistake, there are more than 10 people who made it, notes John Rentoul – but these clamorous voices led the ...

Nothing spoke more to the seismic shifting of the tectonic political plates in Scotland than when Douglas Alexander, a Labour ...

the famous Scottish politician and soldier, completed extensive additions in the 1840s. Those improvements, masterminded by the Aberdeen city architect John Smith, transformed the place into one of ...

It’s safe to say that our new man in Washington divides opinion — almost as much as the president to whom he’ll be paying court. It’s a nakedly political appointment by Sir Keir Starmer, who is taking ...

The Frenchman, who preceded him as EU trade commissioner, notes the controversy that has often dogged the Labour politician ... Blair as Labour leader when John Smith died in 1994, Mandelson ...

Deep in the heart of Barossa Valley’s wine-producing region lies the picturesque, charming, tree-lined historic town of Angaston.

SCOTT Wright's front page report ("Dire skills shortage threatens Scotland’s green ... BRIAN Wilson’s tacky smear of John Swinney as a "populist" politician (“We’ll judge the FM on what ...

John Devlin Now they’re taking their double ... “Yeah, right. You’re the politician,” says McDermid, “you’re the one that talks all the time. But the one thing it won’t be is po ...

English politician, property-developer and slave-owner ... Originally an advocate at the Scottish bar and friend of Adam Smith and David Hume in Edinburgh literary scene. His wealth came from his ...