Salmondshambles: “Barefaced liar” Alex Salmond suffers “darkest day” as first minister
Ed Jacobs reports on Alex Salmond’s “darkest day” since coming to power, branded a “barefaced liar” by Scottish Labour after a series of gaffes and falsehoods.
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SNP resignations leave Salmond with majority of one
Highland and Islands MSPs John Finnie & Jean Urquhart have announced they have quit the Scottish National Party over Alex Salmond’s decision not to leave NATO.
SNP NATO split: “The political ghost of Tony Blair rises up and shakes them by the hand”
Ed Jacobs reports on the NATO split at the SNP conference.
‘Green on Blue’: The hidden enemy
After a spate of green on blue attacks, attacks by uniformed Afghan police on NATO forces, NATO has announced that they are scaling back joint operations. This development goes to the very heart of the problems facing the future oftest
The military campaign in Afghanistan cannot save the West from long-term strategic failure
As the NATO summit on Afghanistan approaches, former infantry officer Patrick Bury addresses the imminent strategic failure of an unpopular war.
Can the SNP u-turn on NATO without u-turning on nuclear weapons as well?
Are the SNP about to perform a u-turn over its policy concerning whether an independent Scotland would join NATO?
Where does NATO, Cameron, and the West stand after the Libyan intervention?
Cameron, Sarkozy, Clinton and Liberal Interventionism have been vindicated. Bob Gates and Merkel have been diminished.
Arab Spring latest: Murder, civil war and motor racing
If the Spring has run dry it’s because of the ruthless cruelty of the dictators, not any lack of democratic will or bravery on the part of the protesters.
Fear of death: The ultimate injunction
There’s more than one way of muzzling the press; at least super-injunctions don’t imprison or kill, writes Amnesty International UK’s Mike Blakemore.
Syria: A nation bloody but defiant
Dominic Browne reports on the atrocities committed by the regime of President Assad in Syria prior to a heroic day of defiance taking place in the country today.