Alex Salmond

Lamont admits SNP will win more council seats

Wednesday 18 April 2012

SCOTTISH Labour leader Johann Lamont has conceded that the SNP, already the biggest party in local government, will increase its numbers in next month's council elections.

Kirk deserves praise for stance against tax havens

Wednesday 18 April 2012

WHEN a huge global corporation is making billions of pounds worth of sales in a country, can it be right that it pays no tax into that country's exchequer?

Magazine did not deserve pounding

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Nationalists of all stripes lack a sense of humour (at least about themselves) and have no great love for inconvenient facts.

I I don't share Paxman's view that politicians are all liars. I think some may turn that way, but most are sincere

Monday 16 April 2012

INTERVIEWING STV anchor man John MacKay presents a particular challenge, and not just because he's a journalist and therefore fluent in subtext.

SNP strategists predict landslide in Nationalist support at council elections

Sunday 15 April 2012

The SNP is privately predicting it could double the number of councils it runs in next month's polls, ousting Labour as the traditional party of Scottish local government.