5 h. ago Alex Salmond ally stands down as chair of Alba Party for 'personal reasons'

EXCLUSIVE: Alba leader Kenny MacAskill said Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh had temporarily stepped aside but looked forward to her return.

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3 d. ago Government launches appeal against Sturgeon investigation information ruling

The Government said Information Commissioner David Hamilton ‘erred in relation to the law’ over the issue.

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8 d. ago Good luck with that: Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party tells internal election candidates to refrain from 'personal attacks' on rivals after months of hard Left infighting

Rules for those wishing to run for a seat on Your Party's new Central Executive Committee (CEC) say they must behave in a 'respectful, comradely, and non-abusive manner'.

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8 d. ago Anas Sarwar challenges John Swinney to TV debates in bid to close Holyrood poll gap

The Scottish Labour's call has echoes of the strategy pursued by former SNP leader Alex Salmond nearly twenty years ago.

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1 week ago Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’

After faltering in his plan to found a new ‘America Party’, the world’s richest person is returning to the GOP fold

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1 week ago Swinney warned SNP Cabinet net zero would increase fuel poverty despite renewables bills vow

John Swinney made the admission while he was one of Alex Salmond’s cabinet secretaries and is revealed just weeks after he claimed the SNP could cut bills with independence

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1 week ago Ministers considered holding indyref on same day as 2011 election, papers reveal

The matter was considered – but ultimately rejected – by then first minister Alex Salmond’s cabinet in 2010.

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4 w. ago South Africa in talks with Russia over men ‘tricked’ into fighting in Ukraine

Government says it received distress calls, as daughter of ex-president Jacob Zuma accused of luring men to frontlineSouth Africa’s government is in talks with Russia to bring home 17 South African men fighting for Russia in Ukraine, after the men were allegedly tricked on to the frontlines of the war by a daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla has been accused in multiple lawsuits of luring the 17 South African and two Botswanan men to Russia in July, by telling them they would be training as bodyguards for her father’s uMkhonto weSizwe political party or attending a personal development course. Continue reading...

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