The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.

Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.

In sport, as in science, business, and diplomacy, as Scots we understand that we benefit from the deep and diverse partnerships that make up the United Kingdom.

Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.

We don't just show up at election time; we're there full time.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.