News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
FIRST Minister Alex Salmond has hit out at "secret plans" to axe a vital rail service between Scotland and London.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Labour is defending a 10,000-plus majority, but this week's byelection could be critical Labour is hoping to use a positive result in this week's Glasgow North East byelection as the springboard for a national revival of its fortunes, the party's candidate said last night. Willie Bain, an academic standing for Labour after the resignation of House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin last June, said...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Alex Salmond and key SNP figures admit nationalists have large gap to close to win seat on Thursday Gordon Brown today accused Alex Salmond's government of "letting down" the people of Glasgow as he sought to bolster Labour's campaign to hold one of the party's safest and longest-held seats. Labour are clear favourites to win the contest for Glasgow North East on Thursday, in what is expected...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The report which Sir Christopher Kelly’s Committee on Standards in Public Life published on MPs’ expenses and allowances on Wednesday, as yet, only comprises recommendations. Nick Robinson, on his blog , has set out the likely process for its implementation, during which MPs might, he contends, attempt to ‘smooth off the sharpest edges’ of the proposed reforms. The committee...
Betsan Powys' blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
On St Andrew's Day I wonder how tempted Alex Salmond will be to raise some questions -perhaps answer a few - about his future plans for an independent Scotland? How soon after that would the UK Government be obliged to offer their own answers to come questions raised by the Calman Commission earlier this year. Will they take the same opportunity to respond to the Holtham Commission? It's questions,...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
FIRST Minister Alex Salmond has given his backing for a Scots-owned bank for the first time since The Scotsman revealed that a consortium of businessmen hoped to buy TSB from
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
LABOUR leader Iain Gray yesterday accused Alex Salmond of being "posted missing" from key talks on Scotland's troubled banking industry.
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
More or less a financial FMQs today with Iain Gray berating the First Minister for not attending a meeting of the Financial Services Advisory Board since February. Mr Salmond insisted he was in regular touch with the Board and appeared to shrug off the criticism. Surely it would have been better (for the labour candidate in the forthcoming Glasgow NE by-election) if Iain Gray had questioned the FM...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Move will allow Alex Salmond's Scottish nationalist government to build alliances with small states, city councils and major companies pressing for deep and binding cuts in CO2 emissions Alex Salmond's Scottish nationalist government has joined California and New York city in a global alliance of small states, city councils and major companies pressing for deep and binding cuts in CO2 emissions. The...
SNP Tactical Voting (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I've not had a chance to read the Kelly proposals in full but thanks to Gerri Peev over at The Steamie I have just learned that the proposals include an end to dual mandate MPs from 2011. In a Scottish context, this means that we cannot have a politician working as both an MP and an MSP at the same time. The decision may be a slight rebuke to Alex Salmond who has held both roles since 2007 but as Alex...
The Grumpy Spindoctor (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Not much to smile about. 'Alex Salmond to take low-profile Glasgow North East by-election role' The Times, October 15th 2009 'We'll have 'a brammer of a by-election' says Salmond' The Scotsman, )October 15th 2009 'Alex Salmond rides his luck with call to end 74 years of Labour rule' The Times, October 31st 2009 'Salmond and McConnell clash at Glasgow North East by-election' The Herald, 3rd November...
SCOT goes POP! (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I scarcely know whether to laugh or cry. Kezia Dugdale has devoted a blog post to triumphantly pointing out that Alex Salmond was technically wrong in his assertion that there are no maternity hospitals in Glasgow North-east, on the grounds that while there may be none today, there were two when David Kerr was born in 1973. "Arrogant bluster" from Salmond, Kezia calls it. Hmmm. To me, the...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
CHURCH leaders were meeting First Minister Alex Salmond at the Scottish Parliament today.
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
SOME of Alex Salmond's senior ministers have become the latest victims of leaking roofs at the Scottish Parliament.
Chris Townsend Outdoors (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Since my post on October 29 about the leaked news that the Scottish government was to give the go ahead to the Beauly-Denny Power Line, which will carve a horrific industrial slash through the Scottish Highlands, the groups forming the Beauly-Denny Landscape Group have called on their members and all those opposed to the line to write to Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister at First.Minister@...
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