FORMER Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander and three other ex-MSPs have joined the advisory board of an independent think-tank.

BRING it on, declared Wendy Alexander in 2008, when she unexpectedly backed the idea of holding an immediate independence referendum in Scotland.

WENDY ALEXANDER announced she was quitting Holyrood a few days after she was reported to have been handed a place in Iain Gray's cabinet... Which looked a lot less certain anyway after a MORI poll in the Times put Labour and the SNP neck and neck (though YouGov, for the Greens, seem to have restored Labour's lead). Bill Aitken resigned as justice convener. I'll merely note there remains a lot of s...

LAST week's scenes in a Holyrood committee room were reminiscent of the early days of the Scottish Parliament, when Labour still ruled and Wendy Alexander bestrode the cor

THE Holyrude row shows no signs of subsiding, despite Alex Fergusson's courteous efforts to draw it to close. There are lots of opinions out there today and they are split on two broad issues:   (1) Were Wendy Alexander and David McLetchie rude? (2) Did they stray beyond the committee's remit? The first question is very subjective. I thought not (see previous posts) but it's only fair to say ...

The Scotland Bill committee, chaired by my colleague Wendy Alexander, is scrutinising legislation that will have a profound influence on the future financing of Scotland's

THE Scotland Bill, implementing the Calman Commission recommendations, is before the Scottish Parliament. It will be the biggest transfer of financial power from London since

So MSPs Iain Gray (three weeks ago), Wendy Alexander (two weekends ago) and now Ian Davidson MP have attacked Ireland's economic record. They'd do bett

'A GOOD man fallen amongst politicians' so ran The Scotsman headline following the death of Michael Foot earlier this year. It could equally well have applied to Donal

RECENTLY I had the pleasure of debating with Wendy Alexander MSP, former leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, on BBC Newsnight. The subject was government spending. We did