Alex Salmond has announced that the recommendations of the UK Defence Review could offer a blueprint for the military in an independent Scotland. In an interview with the BBC, the First Minister outlined a “defence force” of one naval base...
Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Rory Scothorne | Read more »
Bill Kidd has become the first Scottish parliamentarian to be appointed to the board of a prestigious international anti-nuclear body. Mr Kidd, an SNP MSP, who represents voters in Glasgow, accepted membership to the Council of the Parliamentaria...
Wed 28 Oct 2009 by Joe Pike | Read more »
Having announced preliminary plans to reduce the number of nuclear submarines from four to three, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has faced criticism for maintaining any at all. The UK’s present complement of four Vanguard class nuclear-armed submar...
Wed 07 Oct 2009 by Neil Bennet | Read more »
Hundreds of protesters marched from the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood to the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens on Saturday 3 November to campaign against the government's Trident plans. Organised by Scotland 4 Peace, the march - entitled Peop...
Mon 05 Nov 2007 by Paul Traynor | Read more »
Alex Salmond has taken his first venture into foreign policy, an area not included in the devolution settlement and which has traditionally been the sole reserve of the British Foreign Office, with a plea for representation at the next round of nuclea...
Mon 05 Nov 2007 by Helen Walker | Read more »