Steve James on Alex Salmond’s social democratic credentials…

Alex Salmond’s remark to Iain Dale that Scots ‘didn’t mind the economic side’ of Thatcherism, created a storm of hypocrisy and exposed a fundamental truth about Scottish politics, argues Gerry Hassan. Mainstream politicians are as united in tacitly accepting Thatcher’s legacy as in publicly abominating her policies.

Steve James investigates Tommy Sheridan’s recent political trajectory and asks how long it will be before he joins the Scottish Nationalist Party.