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1 month ago | 
news.stv.tv | Alex Salmond |Colin Mackay |Insight Colin Mackay |Gianni Marini
Whatever you think of her, Nicola Sturgeon has put in a shift. She’s been an MSP since 1999, in Government from 2007 to 2023, the longest-serving First Minister of Scotland and the only woman to hold the job. Sturgeon started young, joining the SNP as a teenager. She was still in her twenties when she was first elected to the Scottish Parliament. By the time the SNP won a shock election victory in 2007 – propelling her to Deputy First Minister – she was only in her thirties.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
investing.com | Alex Salmond
Published 10/12/2024, 04:44 PMUpdated 10/12/2024, 04:46 PMAlex Salmond, 'monumental figure' of Scottish politics, dies at 69© Reuters. Alex Salmond attends the Ohrid Cultural Diplomacy Forum, North Macedonia, October 12, 2024.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
wingsoverscotland.com | Alex Salmond
On 15 October 2012, I signed the Edinburgh Agreement with David Cameron to secure the independence referendum of September 2014. On the same day Peter Kellner of the polling company YouGov wrote one of his condescending commentaries from London dissing any hope for the Yes campaign. “However, from Salmond’s point of view, it is about the only thing going for him.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
thenational.scot | Alex Salmond
The key to success back in 2007 was not just in scrapping PFI but bringing something better in its place, writes Alex Salmond ONE of the early initiatives of the first SNP government elected in 2007 was to scrap Labour’s obsession with Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) that had locked Scotland into decades of over-priced debt.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Alex Salmond
There is a phenomenon in electricity generation called “Black Start”. That is the, as yet thankfully, theoretical process by which the electricity grid can be refired following a total blackout. It requires a generating site powerful enough to kickstart the grid and independent enough not to depend, for its own operating status, on grid power. In Scotland, the giant coal station at Longannet was once designated with this task.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
holyrood.com | Alex Salmond
The Scottish Parliament is 25 years old. However, in a very real sense it is 25 years young.
The underlying and remarkable fact of the first quarter of a century of this young parliament is that it has established itself as the forum of Scottish politics – the place where things are done and undone.
That did not happen immediately. The parliament was launched into a sea of goodwill, with MSPs cheered into their temporary home on the Mound.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
everand.com | Jitendra Joshi |Peter Geoghegan |Sebastian Payne |Alex Salmond
Millions of voters across London will go to the polls on July 4 to elect the new Government. The Standard is looking at battleground seats in the capital. Here we turn the spotlight on:
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
thenational.scot | Alex Salmond
Gavin McCrone is too bright to say Scotland isn't a viable independent country, writes Alex Salmond (Image: PA) GAVIN McCrone is a talented economist. He has given his name to two reports – one kept secret in the 1970s, and another on teachers’ pay and conditions, very public at the turn of the century.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
joe.co.uk | Charlie Herbert |Callum Boyle |Paul Moore |Alex Salmond
80-year-old billionaire, Nicolas Puech, has announced plans to adopt his 51-year-old long-time gardener and assign him as the rightful heir to his massive fortune. Puech, who is a fifth-generation descendent to the designer and fashion conglomerate Thierry Hermes, is one of Switzerland’s wealthiest men with an estimated worth of around $11.6 billion or £9 billion.
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Nov 25, 2023 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Alex Salmond |Douglas Walker
ExclusiveThe shattering impact claimed the lives of the chopper pilot and two cops on board plus seven Clutha punters. A CLUTHA disaster survivor has recalled ten years on how she waited in shock outside the devastated Glasgow pub for her partner to come out — but he never did. Minutes earlier Mary Kavanagh, now 69, had watched Robert Jenkins, 61, get up from his seat beside her in the busy boozer so that he could go buy her a glass of cranberry juice. That was the last time she saw him.
