The Scottish National party is more like a cult than a political party. A recent poll showed that the majority of SNP...
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Alex Salmond Articles
Parroting the Conservative line
With Scottish Labour’s new leadership team already beginning to set the agenda in Scottish politics, it would be easy...
Salmond’s legacy: Scottish Labour’s chance for renewal
Few people have taken their political party from the fringes of public debate to wielding untrammelled power. Clement...
Darling exceeds expectations
The build-up to last night’s STV debate on Scottish independence, like the rest of the referendum campaign, seemed to...
Wheels coming off the wagon
It's been a pretty big few weeks in the referendum debate. The arguments around the currency and membership of the...
Not a price worth paying
The year of the referendum is finally upon us. As the independence referendum campaign enters its 20th month we are...
From Jessie J to Plan B
‘It’s all about the money, money, money …’ so the great political philosopher, Jessie J, tells us – and in the debate...
A question of trust
In 1988, then vice-president George HW Bush made a speech at his party’s national convention accepting the party’s...
Bloodless revolution
With Scotland’s vote on independence one year away, Blair McDougall finds the nationalist strategy stalled Next...
The hard road
There is a middle Scotland and it decides elections —Johann Lamont is the third leader of the Scottish Labour party to...
A long three years until election day
The swagger and bluster of Scottish politics can sometimes make British politics look like a Jane Austen novel. It was...
No strange death here
There are two theories about the fate of the many Tory voters who used to roam freely across the plains of Scotland....