1、CONFOUNDING all punditry, Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, led his Scottish National Party (SNP) to a stunning victory in the devolved Parliament's elections on May 5th.
2、In Scotland, Alex Salmond is pushing ahead with minimum pricing policies, and yet in England there is a deafening silence where a substantive strategy should be.
3、For his part Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, briefly looked stunned-inheriting responsibility for taxes in the depths of a recession is a poisoned political chalice-but quickly rallied.
