
Why the omens for the budget are not looking good
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

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

THE NEXT FEW WEEKS are possibly the most important for British democracy since the UK’s referendum on European Union membership was held on 23 June

THE CAR IS BACK, and it is not going to go away. That was the clear message this week’s latest figures for transport use in Scotland

IF YOU ARE a Foreign Office Minster and are praised by a Corbynista group, then surely you must know you are doing something wrong? The