The immediate inclination of politicians and technocrats when something goes wrong is to reach for the controls to try and exert more power over events.
MALAYSIA, the second biggest producer of palm oil, maintains it has enough palm oil to meet global demand and keep supply chains moving. Yet despite
IMAGINE you run a well-known supermarket chain and therefore attract a great deal of lobbying from environmental activists wanting to change the ways you do
AS WITH ANY political campaigning when it comes to saving the planet it is often difficult for the public to see the wood because of
A CONSTANT REFRAIN in the EU referendum was how important it was for our farmers to be in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and the
THE PRE-BUDGET leaks are coming fast and furious from the Chancellor’s team in an attempt to set the agenda and manage expectations of what Rishi
VIVIAN LINACRE who has died aged 93 was an optimist’s optimist, an enthusiast’s enthusiast whose glass was always half-full-to-brimming-over with cheerfulness and passion for a
THE WEST’S abrupt and calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan is, for British consumption at least, being compared to the rude awakening to its impotence without US
THE CURRENT OUTRAGE about reducing the UK’s international aid budget is yet another example of self-righteous virtue signalling using other people’s money. Cutting the aid
BACK IN 2014, during the ‘Once in a generation’ independence referendum, you could barely move for outlandish claims that “Only a Yes vote can guarantee…”
THE SCOTTISH ECONOMY is in a desperate state. It has long been lagging behind the UK economy but now the prognosis must be considered as dire.
HOW a country acts, how its government behaves, is as much a cultural decision as it is a legal one. Laws can be changed or
