Salmond shuffle paves the way for referendum campaign
Ed Jacobs reports on Alex Salmond’s reshuffling of the Scottish government.
Scotland
As MSPs return from summer break, Salmond warned it’s all about the economy
As MSPs returned from their summer break, first minister Alex Salmond used the first day of the new political season in Scotland to outline a list of 14 bills.
Reshuffle: Wales and Northern Ireland: Reaction to David Jones and Theresa Villiers
Welsh secretary David Jones and Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers settled into their new cabinet seats today, advice aplenty ringing in their ears.
Salmond’s plan to break up the BBC may please Murdoch but will be a disaster for Scotland
Shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran warns against Alex Salmond’s disastrous plans to break up the BBC.
Experts slap down Salmond’s plan for a two-question Scottish independence referendum
A panel of experts has argued the referendum on whether Scotland should become an independent nation should be comprised of one clear question.
The phoney war on Scottish independence is coming to an end
The phoney war of the Scottish independene referendum may be about to end, and the real war begin, reports Ed Jacobs.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland reaction: Team GB has brought the UK together
Ed Jacobs rounds up the reaction from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to the London 2012 Olympic Games which concluded yesterday.
New archbishop of Glasgow could delay Scotland’s same sex marriage proposals
Yesterday, the Pope appointed a new Archbishop of Glasgow in a move likely to cause friction with the Scottish government over its plans for gay marriage.
Alex Salmond blames Westminster for double-dip recession
Alex Salmond has demanded that Westminster do more to support jobs and growth
Comment: Independence is denting the SNP’s radicalism
. Since its establishment in 1934 the SNP has had as its raison d’etre the pursuit of an independent Scotland, a nation able to exercise self-determination free from the “dead hand of Westminster” which, ministers at Holyrood would argue,test