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Comment Why couldn’t we have cross-party Unionist unity at the start of the campaign, instead of the very end? A combination of the SNP, the Greens, and possibly Alex Salmond himself running Scotland is a truly appalling prospect 5 May 2021 • 7:04pm Alba Party leader Alex Salmond during a visit to the Scotsman Lounge in Edinburgh, on the eve of the Scottish Parliamentary Election on May 6 Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire There’s not a great deal of mystery about Thursday's Scottish election. All the voters need to do if they don’t want a second independence referendum is stop Nicola Sturge...

SNP have turned manifesto failures into an art form – and, of course, their solution is independence As Sturgeon repeated her plan to hold a referendum before June 2023, the issues voters really care about were swept quickly to one side Nicola Sturgeon launches the SNP's election manifesto in Glasgow Credit: AFP There’s not really much point in poring over election manifestos, unless you’re an ‘anorak’ like this one or an avid collector of broken promises. Still, the SNP versions of these documents are a bit special in that in recent times they’ve turned their failure to fulfil m...

Alex Salmond has launched a new pro-independence party Credit: PA You’ve got to hand it to Alex Salmond; whatever his shortcomings, and he has many, he’s never short of a ringing phrase. On the Today Programme on Thursday he said he had charged his 32-strong army of Alba footsoldiers to ‘advance the most noble cause of all … Scottish independence’. Leaving aside his love of hyperbole, I can’t believe that most electors haven’t already concluded that there’s nothing in any way noble in this man's make-up; only an overweening ego and an unbridled passion for revenge against Ni...