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.
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
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.
IN THE TWENTY YEARS since 9/11, instinctive unity has been replaced by officially-imposed uniformity in the United States and across the West. As planes crashed
With apologies to Rumplestiltskin ONCE UPON A TIME in Scotland there was a First Minister who promised the people they would all live happily ever
AFGHANISTAN being ‘the story’ is never good, that much is certain. But this time, it is worse than ever before. There has been a lot
SUPPOSING that the Taliban had never invited Osama bin Laden into Afghanistan or that he had never plotted the destruction of the Twin Towers, these