respected the unanimous ruling of the UK Supreme Court that Scotland does not have the power to hold a referendum. Ms Sturgeon had wanted to hold a referendum on 19 October next year but the UK ...

Ten years on from the historic independence referendum, Scotland is in a sorry state of disrepair and disunity. Since 2014, the endless debate about so-called independence - or breaking up the ...

Ten years after the independence referendum, Scotland cannot leave behind its “toxic legacy of division” until the “fanatical” SNP is removed from power, Douglas Ross has said. The ...

A year later, he created a new party called Alba — the Scottish Gaelic word for Scotland — that made few inroads into Scottish politics and sought a new independence referendum come what may.

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 ...

And yet the independence supporting radical left, by far the dominant part of the left in Scotland, was presented less than ten years later with an opportunity for both salvation and redemption in the ...

On March 30, 1989, I put my name to the Claim of Right for Scotland. This was the document that declared the people of ...

Salmond led the Scottish National Party for a decade and a half, taking Scotland up to the brink of independence from the United Kingdom in a 2014 referendum. He transformed the SNP from a fringe ...

Mr Salmond used his mandate as first minister to hold a 2014 referendum on Scottish independence - resigning the day after the "Yes Scotland" campaign was defeated.

A year later, he created a new party called Alba — the Scottish Gaelic word for Scotland — that made few inroads into Scottish politics and sought a new independence referendum come what may.

He was 69. Salmond, who was one of the most divisive figure in British politics at the turn of the century and who as the then leader of the Scottish National Party took Scotland to the brink of ...