Pete Wishart: “Let's take the extraordinary skills and expertise created by the North Sea and put them to work building its successor.”

It's disappointing that after 12 years the Scottish Affairs Committee has reverted back to being an instrument of partisan politics.

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…

Well, it could equally apply to Scottish independence, but it would be entirely the wrong thing to do.

New drilling will not reduce household energy bills.