The answer to that vulnerability cannot be to remain permanently dependent on the fossil fuels that expose us to precisely this instability.

Rosebank is a “test of whether we are serious about the climate commitments we have made”

I have watched, like everybody else, as the world has burned this summer.

More atmospheric carbon contributes to more warming, meaning more climate chaos.

Scotland must accelerate its transition to renewable energy and stop looking to new oil and gas extraction as the answer to our energy future.

New drilling will not reduce household energy bills.

So an unelected house composed of Unionist party donors and cronies, friends of former PMs, failed MPs, Church of England bishops and aristocrats should sit in judgment on a democratically elected party that has just won its fifth…

The House of Lords should be abolished.

The SNP’s position is clear: the House of Lords should be abolished. If there is to be a second chamber in the future, it must have democratic legitimacy and be accountable to the people.

Once again Westminster is tinkering around the edges of a fundamentally broken system. The House of Lords is an absurdly bloated, unelected chamber that has no place in a modern democracy.

What is needed is a proper debate about whether it should exist at all. Anything less is simply protecting a broken system.

He should start by scrapping Starmer’s reckless migration plans.

It shows why Scotland needs the full powers of independence, so people in Scotland can make decisions in our interests, instead of having harmful decisions imposed on us by Westminster.

Andy Burnham’s plans for power are still a closely guarded secret, but if he isn't prepared to face scrutiny on his own policies then at the very least he needs to scrap some of Keir Starmer’s.

And to think that this work has concluded is utterly madness.

This is the wrong thing to do, it is the wrong response.

An inquiry into the financial arrangements and internal governance of one of Scotland's political parties would therefore fall beyond any reasonable interpretation of the Committee's remit.

The purpose of the Scottish Affairs Committee is to scrutinise the work of the Scotland Office and to examine the policies, administration and expenditure of the UK Government as they affect Scotland.

Embarking upon an inquiry into matters that properly belong to the jurisdiction of the Scottish Parliament, and doing so without its consent, risks reopening old divisions and damaging relationships that have been carefully rebuilt.

Pursuing such an inquiry risks undermining the reputation for balanced and inclusive scrutiny that the Committee has worked hard to establish.

I therefore hope the committee will think very carefully before pursuing a course of action that could once again raise questions about its impartiality and potentially damage its relationships with key stakeholders across Scotland.