Alex Salmond

Joking aside, there are bigots in both camps
Sunday 5 May 2013

THE last time I saw Have I Got News For You, they had Ray Winstone in the chair.

Behold the clown prince of British politics: who's laughing now?
Sunday 5 May 2013

'RESPECT," said David Cameron to the UKIP leader Nigel Farage after the Conservatives received their biggest shock since 1997 in the English local elections on Thursday night.

Concentrate on fiscal policy before considering currency
Saturday 4 May 2013

The recent advocacy for a re-established Scottish currency to provide an independent Scotland with the capacity to practise a less-restrained fiscal and monetary policy founds on the assertion that Scotland can stand proud and prevail in future scenarios of market turbulence ("Canavan calls for new Scots currency", The Herald, May 1).

Salmond: UK pension funds split is possible
Friday 3 May 2013

COMPANIES operating across the UK could be forced to split their pension funds into separate Scottish and English schemes under post-independence plans being considered by SNP ministers.

A penny for First Minister's thoughts as Lamont notes problem
Friday 3 May 2013

The last time I checked, 12 pennies Scots were worth a single penny in funny foreign English money. At the current rate of intellectual exchange, you can get almost as many Holyrood opinions for one rational thought on currency union.