Alex Salmond Articles

The former Scottish first minister's attempts to show his editorial independence at RT are a shameless ploy – but Labour cannot take the moral highground, laments Robert Philpot There was something deeply cynical about Alex Salmond’s decision to include a segment...

It was an odd sort of a line up we saw on last night’s Telegraph/Huffington Post/Youtube EU debate. On the remain side we had two formidable politicians who – like it or not (and I suspect for many Progress readers the answer will be not) have had their turn at...

The BBC has been leading its news that the election in Holyrood has been a disaster for Scottish Labour. Even I, as a serial Labour loyalist, cannot pretend that the result has been good for us. However, there are more conclusions to be drawn and lessons to be learned...

When the first edition of this book was published in 2010 the author had three books under his belt, a long treatise on the secretaries of state for Scotland, a posthumous biography of George Younger, and ‘We in Scotland’ on Margaret Thatcher’s uneasy relationship...