DONALD Trump’s election as the next US president is going to unleash economic chaos upon the world, including Scotland ...
I SUSPECT that Rachel Reeves went to bed on Wednesday evening, relieved that her first (and I hope last) Budget day had gone well. If she did, then she was wrong. The legacy of this Budget will last for a long time, and Scotland needs to take note of the messages buried within it ...
THERE is much discussion going on in supposedly learned economic circles right now about how Rachel Reeves might raise the money that she supposedly needs to fill her government’s “black hole” of
THE reality has sunk in. We are facing a General Election. Rarely have I felt so unexcited by the prospect for the UK as a whole ...
When I was a child, there was a comedian who always started his gags by saying “I wanna tell you a story.” My guess is that he thought that there was something unusual about that. He was wrong. Story telling is what we do all the time.
YOU would have thought Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi would want to be quiet about tax. After all, he was sacked from the Cabinet last year over his own tax affairs. Paying a tax penalty of more than a million pounds to HM Revenue & Customs would be enough to teach most people the virtue of silence.
Scotland is, as The National has reported and as all experts from Prof McCrone onwards have agreed, rich with energy resources. These days, what matters is that most of these are sustainable. Where once oil should have given Scotland a wealth and prosperity to rival that of Norway, now it is wind, sun, Highland water and its tides that provide Scotland with a new opportunity to be one of the richest nations on earth because is natural resource endowment is so strong.
OVER the last two days the US House of Representatives has made clear what happens when far-right elements are elected to office under the banner of what was once a respectable political party.
I HAVE written about the need for an independent Scotland to have its own currency for some time. I rather hope that the events of the last week or so have resolved this issue.
IT'S hard to write that I now think that we are at the start of the biggest economic crisis of my 64-year lifetime, but I have no choice. I warned in this column that things would be bad with Truss in charge. But I must be honest and say that I never thought she and Kwasi Kwarteng would be as bad as it turns out they are intent on being.
