There are right-wing groups which are rightly proscribed and others operating which are dangerous. Police monitoring and action against them is what is needed. But Swinney’s summit was portrayed as a ...

THE double-digit lead for independence found by polling for The National was welcome news – perhaps long overdue as our nation’s plight in ...

Video of Kenny MacAskill saying he would use his position to press the Crown Office to take action against senior figures in the SNP Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk It earned him a ...

A longstanding ally to Alex Salmond has been suspended from the Alba Party over complaints of "gross misconduct", according ...

CHRIS McEleny has been suspended from Alba after he was “dismissed” from his role for “gross misconduct”, the party has ...

John Swinney has defied the well-established political dictum that when you're in a hole, you should stop digging.

Former Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill now leads Alba after Salmond's death last year. In a statement to The National, an Alba spokesperson said: “Mr McEleny was dismissed from his ...

Alba MSP Ash Regan made the plea as she insisted the move will help re-energise the campaign for Scottish independence.

Samir Shegwara was taken into custody two days after the BBC reported that the files could form evidence against a Libyan who has been accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103.