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PREMIUM First Minister Nicola Sturgeon giving evidence to the Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints, at Holyrood in Edinburgh, examining the handling of harassment allegations against former first minister Alex Salmond. Picture Where Alex Salmond used a legal blunderbuss Nicola Sturgeon used a subtle knife to eviscerate the man she called her one time “bestie”. Steering one degree north of defamation throughout, she turned last weeks hearing, which was sup...

analysis A war of flags is a classic example of how the UK Government in its bunker Unionism misunderstands Scotland WE’VE had a week of huge drama and court politics – from ongoing UK royal family splits to the SNP stand-off between Sturgeon and Salmond and their respective camps. The two may compete as theatre, psychodrama and power politics whilst throwing light on gender politics, and the nature and limits of democracy. But there are important differences – with Scotland’s contr...

AT times like this, my mind drifts to the Rorschach test, that fascinating set of ink-stained images that tell us all we need to know about the Scottish Tories. The Rorschach was a test developed by the Swiss psychologist Hermann ­Rorschach in 1921 to measure our thought disorders and to establish the sad psychological fact that in life, irrespective of the shapes set out in front of us, some people see what they want to see. Rorschach has been deployed by America as a military personnel...

Unionist wishful thinking The Salmond-Sturgeon rift has given hope to anti-independence forces, writes Paul Demarty. But the national question is not so easily dealt with Since we last had cause to comment on the feud between Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, things have hardly calmed down. Last week, after much back and forth, Salmond - leader of the Scottish National Party when it obtained and narrowly lost the 2014 independence referendum - finally delivered evidence to the parliamentary inq...

Deputy First Minister John Swinney admitted that no minutes were made of two key Government meetings Scottish Tories claimed Nicola Sturgeon and Scotlands top civil servant met with lawyers to discuss Salmond Douglas Ross is now accusing First Minister of a cover-up and of concealing crucial evidence in latest twist  MSPs are investigating the Governments botched handling of the case against the former First Minister Sturgeon is accused of breaking the ministerial code by misleading Parliament...

Nicola Sturgeon has ridiculed Alex Salmond’s “absurd” conspiracy claims and condemned his “deeply distressing” attack on party colleagues who “feel let down by him”.Over a gruelling eight hours of

Nicola Sturgeon choked back tears and insisted “I would never have wanted to ‘get’ Alex Salmond” as she rejected as absurd his claims of a plot among senior SNP figures to destroy him.

Her story there is frankly not credible: MSP who grilled Nicola Sturgeon at epic eight-hour hearing about forgotten meeting says she should resign and WILL face consequences First Minister faces Tory calls for a no confidence vote but opposition parties are yet to back it Yesterday she slammed her predecessor for failing to offer up a single word of regret during his testimony  She also contested his version of events in the run-up to the Scottish Governments botched investigation  She said h...

That amnesia may be catching, and during her marathon grilling Nicola Sturgeon showed some tell-tale symptoms. For all her relative composure, this wasnt a tour de force, writes GRAHAM GRANT

IT may be of interest to note that yet again during this pandemic the UK power grid has had to rely upon Europe. Since last weekend, Scotland and the rest of mainland Britain has had to depend upon European imported power to keep our lights on and our hospitals and labs functioning as wind generation has collapsed and solar output in the cloudy, short-daylight weather has been typically low and brief. As at Tuesday mid-afternoon (March 2) Scotland was importing more than 1000MW from Engla...