Alex Salmond has been left red faced and embarrassed after three prominent figures stood him up at an event where he was among the speakers. California's Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and London mayor...

Charles Kennedy and Sir Menzies Campbell must be feeling a little smug this week after Tony Blair's confession about Iraq, although knowing both of them as I do neither would ever admit that. Tony Blair told Sky News that he believes it would have...

I saw this story first on the BBC news newspaper review yesterday morning, and found myself intrigued that a story of one of the Army's finest who has come out to his fellow troops was being covered by a red top newspaper in a positive way. So,...

When Alistair Darling announced in the pre-budget report that pensions would be increased by 2.5% many, if not all pensioners must have sensed a little relief knowing they would at the very least get an increase in their weekly pension. But as time...

The Cameron bounce doesn't exist in Scotland in the same way as it appears to in England. Yesterday the voters went to the polls in the Bearsden South by-election to select a Councillor to replace the Conservative who had resigned. Bearsden South...