Douglas Alexander

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.

Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.

Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.

In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.

I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.

As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.

As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.

As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.

I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril.