LIKE ANYONE ELSE young enough to know how streaming works and sufficiently tech savvy to install an ad blocker on my browser, I don’t encounter
SHELL has announced that it will cease to have a joint UK-Dutch head office establishment and that the group parent will be in the UK.
Please forgive this contribution but the passing of one’s mother is a profound event and writing her eulogy makes one reflect on not just the
REGULAR READERS may have noticed I’ve been absent for the last couple of weeks. Far from being for any mysterious reason, I would rather you
IN THE THEATRE of the absurd, in Glasgow, an extraordinary degree of self-congratulation and virtual signalling is on display with the great and good outdoing
THE WORLD’S GONE MAD, you couldn’t make it up and lunatics have taken over the asylum. I hear myself saying these phrases every day. Life
IT IS THAT TIME of year again when everyone is suggesting reasons for tax cuts or tax rises in Wednesday’s budget. I would like to
I THINK after almost a decade of watching the independence movement I have safely arrived at the conclusion independence will never happen nor will another
IN 1848, a few years after the first Anglo-Afghan wars, Lord Palmerston stood in the Houses of Parliament and said “we have no eternal allies,
THE OPENING this week of the Scottish Parliament was an auspicious affair. Politicians mingled with royalty, backs were slapped, and children were ‘high-fived’. This was
On Friday 18 September Vivian Linacre, a few years into his nineties, slipped away from us in his Perth home after an illness born bravely.
THERE ARE of course many different reasons why the British people voted against the siren advice of almost the entire Establishment to leave the EU