Scottish officials are reportedly discussing whether the country could maintain the pensions triple lock in an independent ...

This year is the tenth anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum, which whilst the motion for independence was defeated, set in train a groundswell in ...

The result "established the SNP as a formidable political force" and confirmed "that a referendum on Scottish independence was inevitable". Although the independence movement would go on to lose ...

The allegation was made following the death of the former first minister, who died in North Macedonia in October while ...

SOMETIMES it’s difficult to work out if politicians are more bothered about the national interest or social media adulation.

was resigning as First Minister after his party’s defeat in the independence referendum in 2014. It was no doubt a sore loss ...

Alex Salmond could have been a "wise head" for the SNP and should have been persuaded not to resign suddenly in the wake of the independence referendum, according to former Scottish Labour leader ...

Salmond, who died suddenly earlier this month, will be buried on Tuesday following a private service at Strichen Parish ...

Over the weekend, there was a flurry of excitement on X, eventually taken up in certain newspapers, about a Parliamentary ...

Former first minister Alex Salmond has been remembered as not just the political leader who took Scotland “so close to his ...

Within the SNP he co-founded the socialist, republican 79 Group after the party’s rout in 1979 following Labour’s abortive devolution referendum. He was elected to the SNP’s executive in ...