Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks.
People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.
I've never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It's all about where you breathe. That's my claim to fame.
We already know that social security is more affordable in Scotland than it is in the rest of the U.K. - spending on social protection takes up a smaller share of our economic output and our tax revenues than is the case in the U.K. as a whole.
An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.
The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.
My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.
If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world.
Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.
The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.
If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.
The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.
People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.
Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.
The Scottish Government will continue to do all it can to get people into work.
I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.
I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.
I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.
Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving in the right direction.
