Alex Salmond

Salmond asking voters to take the biggest financial risk of their lives
Thursday 23 May 2013

In examining the economies of an independent Scotland, Ian Bell seems to me to present an equivalent argument to the suggestion that if, for example, two people are happily married they would both therefore also be happy if they were divorced ("Better off out of it: a slogan whose time has finally come", The Herald, May 22).

Putting panto into politics
Thursday 23 May 2013

OFFPANTS, the regulatory body for the pantomime industry, is to intervene in the independence referendum as concern grows about the performances of both the Oh Yes It Is and the Oh No It Isn't campaigns.

Better off out of it: a slogan whose time has finally come
Wednesday 22 May 2013

Anyone who has reached an opinion about independence, for or against, has dealt with one argument above all others.

SNP: UK policies have set back Scots economy
Wednesday 22 May 2013

It argues decisions by UK governments – from the failure to invest in an oil fund in the 1970s and 1980s to cuts to capital spending in the past few years – have undermined growth.

Economic outline lacking in detail
Wednesday 22 May 2013

In fairness, the Scottish Government's paper on the economic case for independence is not intended as a policy document.