“Decisions made at the G7 summit this weekend will set the agenda for the COP26 conference in Glasgow in November, so we want to make sure that the world leaders...
THERE WAS SOMETHING painfully neurotic about Boris Johnson’s recent G7 interview. A psychoanalyst might have seized on how Britain’s “special relationship” with America became a “deep and meaningful” then an...
US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had their first G7 face-to-face today (10 June) to discuss competition with China. Officially, the talks will be about rebuilding...
THE WORST GRADE I ever received at university was for a paper on America’s wartime President Woodrow Wilson. The teaching of the course, and the framing of the question, emphasised...
IT HAS DOMINATED a decade of Scottish politics, but the movement for independence has little to show for it save faded memories, cushy careers and bitter rivalries. The polls might...
NEWS that Scotland has bucked the trends in the UK and EU and secured a bumper year of Foriegn Direct Investment (FDI) will be music in the ears of Scottish...
The Scottish Government has put forward a £400,000 grant to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland for its Saving Wildcats project. “Wildcats are one of Britain’s rarest and most endangered mammals,...
SINGLE POLLS SHOULD always be greeted with a dose of scepticism, particularly when they are funded by lobby groups, and, yes, even where they present laudable conclusions. Nonetheless, a new...
FOR A MAN DUBBED “Sleepy Joe”, President Biden has proved peculiarly perky in office, and recently sprung a new surprise by reviving the theory that covid-19 may have leaked from...
CERTAIN events tell you more about the observers than the observed. The recent controversy surrounding Naomi Osaka and her apparently outrageous concern for her own mental well-being, for example, revealed...