
As in politics so in commerce, if you’re in a hole and want out, stop digging
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

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

YOU CANNOT GET AWAY from the Conservative slogan: Get Brexit Done. In newspapers, on television and radio, on social media, it is everywhere. But what

OUR POLITICIANS through their deceit, self-aggrandisement, short termism and ignorance have brought disgrace on this nation. Let us be clear Theresa May was elected on