Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.