anyone who watched the exchange in the Scottish Parliament... would certainly not recognize the story that you publish here.

Form your own Opinion watch it on You Tube... Salmond Verbally slaps down Stephens like some wayward child.

Hal, Methil,

The problem for the business-as-usual Westminster hacks is that they don't know how to handle a politics outside their narrow reach so they invent half-baked assaults in lieu of real debate. With Unionist defenders of this calibre, it's no wonder Mr Salmond is having a well-deserved honeymoon.
English voters are increasingly looking jealously to a Government led by a viable leader of a party opposing the uninspiring 3 wise monkey politics south of the border.

Timothy J Perkins, Manchester, England

What a load of total tosh..........and not for the first time of late.....from Sir Magnus Linklater (Oops...sorry.......did I let the cat out of the bag there??)...............every Scots least favourite Unionist troll.
For anyone from south of the border who is interested in understanding the big political changes going on apace in Edinburgh....do yourself a favour........ignore this utter bilge and get direct onto the scottish papers on-line editions and forget this snivelling adherent to the Butcher's Apron

Hamish Morrison, Inverness, Scotland

The idea of Nicol Stephen, as 'the bad cop', stepping 'into the cell, slamming the door behind him and advancing in menacing style towards the prisoner' is oh so laughable. That such a lightweight could pose Salmond any kind of distress is as proposterous as this article.

paul, tayport, fife

More Unionist bigotry. When are you lot going to get the message that we dont want to be part of the United Kingdom. Waffling rubbish to your English readers wont change one thing especially our opinion that Westminster is nothing more than the place that the pigs stick their snout in the public trough to gorge themselves with as much of the hard spent earnings of Joe Public.

You have a Labour Government run by a Scottish Mafia who have entrenched themselves into controlling every fabric of public corruption. Gordon Brown is an administrator who cannot administer. He hasnt had an original idea in his career. On the other hand we have the nancy boy who went to mummy and daddies choice of public school. He fluked it by being able to talk under water with a mouth full of marbles, whilst his opposition stuttered along very much the one eyed pirate.

Concentrate on your country for the sake of the few English People you have left living there now. English Clearances is your inheritance

Mike, Edinburgh, Kingdom of Scotland

More dismal nonsense in an attempt to cover up Wendy Alexander's criminal acts.

3 weeks after admitting to breaking the law on live tv she has still not been arrested .

Why not?

As has been proved already there were 2 phone calls.
At the first the Trump rep's were present. For the 2nd when the application was called in, they were absent.

No sleaze. No cover up. No story.

Unlike the Lib Dem who had 2 votes on the one comittee being sacked. Most of his party failed to support him.
Liberal Democrats, neither Lib nor Dem and never have been.

Labour lost the election. Get over it.

PJGent, Edinburgh,

A storm in a teacup and the unionists looking to distract us all from Wendygate. "What's that" I hear you say. A known crime, admitted to, and yet no police action against the perpetrators. And if the First Minister hadn't met with Trump, they'd have been claiming dereliction of duty.


What this article also fails to mention is that the vast majority of the people impacted by this development are behind the Scottish Government. Goldie, Nicol et al are, once again, shooting themselves in the foot.

Colin, Edinburgh,

The cynic might conclude this is an attempt to deflect attention from Wendygate. It's a non-story as the First Minister is obliged to meet his constituents or those who wish to do business within his constituency. Could you report that too please and try to be a little more even-handed?

Matthew, Stirling, Scotland