

Cuba must get out of Venezuela and reform before we reward it with our trade
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
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
MY REGULAR READERS have been asking what I make of current events. Last week, the President of the European Commission, Donald Tusk, stagily expressed his
AS CONSUMERS with choice, we should beware those who prophesy doom if the UK chooses a zero import tariff policy post-Brexit. This, it is suggested, is
BY ALLOWING PULSE FISHING against its own rules the EU has provided unchallengeable proof of why we need Brexit and how the Common Fisheries Policy
THE QUESTION of whether the British armed forces should have some sort of statutory and official representative body, somewhat akin to the Police Federation, comes
ACCORDING TO Cruise Critic website, Edinburgh is the top Western European cruise ship destination of 2018. Dig a little deeper however and it’s apparent that passengers
THE OTHERWISE estimable Michael Gove’s infamous dismissal of the views of ‘experts’ during the Brexit referendum was indicative of a mind-set of too many in
JUST TWICE before this week can I remember Brits breaking free of their reserve to speak to strangers about politics. The first occasion was on
LAST NIGHT senior Conservative MPs set out an alternative written ministerial statement they believe the Prime Minister should make now the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration
GLOBAL GREENHOUSE gas emissions in 2017 were 32,500Mte (million tonnes). Britain’s were 375Mte and Scotland’s about 10 per cent of these. Thus Scotland contributes about
LOOKING DOWN from the white-painted church on a hill in Cartagena, Colombia, we surveyed the panorama of the harbour and sea front. In the harbour,
THERE’S A HOUSING CRISIS in this country. Scotland, and our capital city in particular, just doesn’t have houses available to meet the needs of our