Scottish National Party

By The Associated PressFri., March 20, 2020timer2 min. readLONDON - Jurors at the High Court in Edinburgh were sent home for the weekend after briefly commencing their deliberations Friday in the trial for alleged sex crimes of Scotland’s former first minister, Alex Salmond.After Salmond’s defence lawyer wrapped up by saying…

LONDON (AP) — Jurors at the High Court in Edinburgh were sent home for the weekend after briefly commencing their deliberations Friday in the trial for alleged sex crimes of Scotland’s former first minister, Alex Salmond.After Salmond’s defense lawyer wrapped up by saying there was something “strange” about the allegations,…

Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland, has denounced some of the sexual charges against him as “deliberate fabrications for a political purpose.”March 17, 2020, 5:18 PM2 min readLONDON -- Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond denounced some of the sex-crimes charges against him as “deliberate fabrications for a…

Source: PA Images I know that some of this is coming as a real shock and it is going involve big changes in the way we live our lives. I know that I am asking people to make enormous sacrifices. We’re doing it for each other. Together, we can slow…

Skip to comments. New Briefing on the Definition of Islamophobia Christian Concern ^ | 3/11/20 Posted on 03/15/2020 7:18:52 AM PDT by marshmallow In May 2019, a group of 40 leading experts from a range of religious backgrounds wrote to the government warning it against adopting a proposed definition of…

Splits between fundamentalists and gradualists are growing widerJUST A FEW years ago, in 2014, he came within a whisker of realising his dream of leading Scotland out of the United Kingdom. The former leader of the Scottish National Party, Alex Salmond, transformed the politics of his homeland, dragging the SNP…

LAST MONTH Ronnie Cowan, a Westminster MP from the Scottish National Party, wrote to Britain’s Department for Work and Pensions on behalf of some incensed pensioners in his constituency. Pensioners are often incensed, but these complaints were not about inflation-indexing or retirement ages; they were linguistic. The irate retirees did…

Splits between fundamentalists and gradualists are growing widerJUST A FEW years ago, in 2014, he came within a whisker of realising his dream of leading Scotland out of the United Kingdom. The former leader of the Scottish National Party, Alex Salmond, transformed the politics of his homeland, dragging the SNP…

LAST MONTH Ronnie Cowan, a Westminster MP from the Scottish National Party, wrote to Britain’s Department for Work and Pensions on behalf of some incensed pensioners in his constituency. Pensioners are often incensed, but these complaints were not about inflation-indexing or retirement ages; they were linguistic. The irate retirees did…

THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL Party must take a “legitimate and legal route” for Scotland to gain independence, the party’s Westminster leader has said. Ian Blackford has dismissed some calls from within the SNP for a “plan B” in the face of the UK Government’s continued refusal to allow a second independence referendum.…