I first met him when interviewing him for Talk Radio in the 1990s and really liked him. In fact, on air, I told him to forget this "silly independence thing" and come and be Prime Minister of Great Britain, as I found him really impressive. He laughed.

Thought he was older than 69. Too young to go just yet. Victim of false accusations too.

Ah yes you noticed that. Indeed those false allegations and the stress and change of career direction due to them may have played a part in causing his death.

Yes JK. The stress of the court case etc. Bloody awful.

JK wrote, "Indeed those false allegations and the stress and change of career direction due to them may have played a part in causing his death."

And, why are so few PROVEN False Accusers PERJURORS high-profile prosecuted and jailed?

Quote JK, "NOT a fake media 'Good Story'!"

One thing I liked about Alex Salmond was he was willing to appear on the media shows of his political opponents and could get on with them easily, despite the fact he probably had little politically in common with them. Talk TV is a good example of this where he appeared regularly, and GB News I think he also made some appearances on too, and it was always civilsed and friendly without giving off any kind of attitude being in the den of the 'enemy' media. Yet you get minnow politicians like Sadiq Khan and others who never engage like this with their opponents.

Only very recently on one of these the discussion was about how he was unlikely to see Scottish independence in his lifetime. That meant another two or three decades, certainly not two or three weeks. He may have been affected by stress of personal events but the fact is he was actually quite overweight and that cannot be ignored as a factor, but in many ways isn't it also nice to have been able to live life fully up until the final minute and slip off having had a decent lunch and a drink.

I thought he was a moron for his stance to leave the UK, but you had to admire his tenacity and even going on Russia Today. It should of never been taken off air nor suppressed by big tech, It's hard to watch it without a VPN. The government and the Operation Mockingbird talking heads, only spew out what they want us to hear and see.

GB News is paid and controlled opposition. It's not even a news channel but a discussion network.

Green Man wrote:
I thought he was a moron for his stance to leave the UK, but you had to admire his tenacity and even going on Russia Today. It should of never been taken off air nor suppressed by big tech, It's hard to watch it without a VPN. The government and the Operation Mockingbird talking heads, only spew out what they want us to hear and see.

GB News is paid and controlled opposition. It's not even a news channel but a discussion network.

I agree with you about GB News, even though I like it and think it has been a good addition to the media, although it does seem to be slowly sliding into the more mainstream arena with too many establishment politicians hogging the airwaves. When it first began three years ago there were not even any top of the hour news bulletins on the network. I do think they are pushing it a bit with the strapline "Britain's News Channel" when if anything it should be "Britain's News and Views Channel" or more aptly based on most of the output simply "Britain's Views Channel".

I disagree on Russia Today. I think that was a major error on Salmond's part and did his reputation no good whatsoever for the sake of what was a tempting pay cheque from a nation (government, as opposed to people) that is clearly our enemy.

Alex Salmond apparently had a massive heart attack it has been announced and quote "died on the spot".

At lunchtime today I noticed a comment online from someone claiming that Alex Salmond had admitted to harassing women and abusing his power. She received multiple "likes". A couple of other posters said he had done no such thing, including one who said it was totally illogical for him to admit to offences he was actually denying in court. I also pointed out that he had explicitly denied harassing women or doing anything criminal (providing this link www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-45294504) and asked her to provide a source for her claim. She didn't respond. When I asked again, she said I should just look for the quote online. When I asked what quote, she didn't respond. So I concluded that she was either misremembering things or deliberately spreading a lie. Since she didn't admit she might be mistaken, I suspect the latter.

I'm so sick of people posting rubbish online, and doing it about a dead man is despicable.

I remember reading alot of YouTube comments about Kevin Spacey the things they saw him or he did to them.

He must have been a very busy boy.