Alex Salmond has joined Jeremy Corbyn in expressing doubt over who was responsible for the chemical weapons attack, despite Theresa May’s declarations of certainty over the Syrian Government’s culpability.

FORMER FIRST MINISTER Alex Salmond has stressed the importance of “letting the importance of international inspection complete before military action”, following Prime Minister Theresa May’s repeated assertion that responsibility for the chemical weapons attack in Douma lay with the Syrian Government.

If a North Sea wealth fund had been set up in the 1980s, it would be worth over half a trillion pounds today, the IPPR estimates

THE UK GOVERNMENT missed its chance to establish a wealth fund based around North Sea oil which would today be worth over £500bn, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

Former first minister criticises UK Government’s handling of the North Sea sector, but is rebuked by Scottish environmentalists

FORMER FIRST MINISTER ALEX SALMOND has called for North Sea oil and gas to benefit “the workers, the communities and the people” over the next several decades.

CommonSpace columnist and Common Weal director Robin McAlpine says we need to start owning our own hypocrisy before it's too late

I VERY much hope that as I am writing this the west's liberal opinion-deciders are in a conclave deciding what the 'correct' opinion is on Zimbabwe. I'd hate to get it embarrassingly wrong.

CommonSpace sat down with the former first minister at the Scottish Independence Convention

FORMER FIRST MINISTER ALEX SALMOND believes the UK Government has remained silent on the situation in Catalonia out of fear of reprisals by the Spanish Government in Brexit negotiations.  

EFTA instead of the EU could be Scotland’s best option, Alex Salmond has said

FORMER First Minister Alex Salmond said in a speech on Thursday (7 September) that a future independence bid should be made on the presumption of Scotland joining the European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA).

In a change from his position during the 2014 referendum, Alex Salmond has backed the idea of an independent Scotland having a new currency

ALEX SALMOND has given his support to an independent Scotland having its own currency.

Speaking at his sold-out Edinburgh Fringe show, ‘Alex Salmond… Unleashed’, the former first minister and SNP leader was joined by acclaimed Scottish chef Andrew Fairlie.

“We live in different times. This is not 2014.” Alex Salmond

During an interview with Elaine C. Smith during his show at the Edinburgh Fringe, Salmond suggested the SNP should help fund the non-party body

THE SNP should consider making a significant financial contribution to the Scottish Independence Convention (SIC), Alex Salmond has suggested onstage at the Edinburgh Fringe.

CommonSpace columnist Yvonne Ridley says the friends the UK is making ahead of its divorce from the EU should have people worried

THE last strand of moral fibre holding together the British government was unpicked in the Westminster Parliament this week with a simple question posed by Alex Salmond.

Normally the cut and thrust of Salmond's barbed questions gives rise to laughter but yesterday there was none - on either side of the House - as he asked Theresa May about her willingness for Britain to trade with one of the most odious dictators on the planet.

Leading yes activists call for #indyref2 movement to put forward diverse options and messages

FORMER First Minister Alex Salmond has said that he feels the SNP ended up being confused with the broader 2014 pro-independence movement because it offered too “definitive” a presentation of the post-independence country.