August 26, 2020
Trade relations are testing business leaders everywhere but particularly those whose governments are strongly aligned with the United States, Geoff Kitney writes. Boris Johnson’s China policy journey has come a long way…
July 23, 2020
In Australia the clarion call of ‘Take back control’ has become the war cry of a re-energised republican movement. Brexiters are not amused, writes Geoff Kitney. “Reclaim out sovereignty! Take back control”….
April 20, 2020
The European Union’s reaction to coronavirus and its economic implications continues to defy the doom merchants. In the face of the usual Eurosceptic predictions of its collapse it has proved that economics…
January 1, 2020
The climate has turned terrorist against nature, but one dare not mention the words ‘climate change’ or ‘climate emergency’, writes Geoff Kitney I am writing this wearing a gauze mask. As I…
July 18, 2019
Very soon the UK could have the least trustworthy prime minister for generations. Murray Ritchie poses the question: how did it come to this? If – or when – Boris Johnson becomes…
June 6, 2019
Supporters of Scottish independence are increasingly optimistic as Indyref2 approaches. The reasons are not difficult to find, writes Murray Ritchie. Just as Brexit is paralysing British politics, so the prospect of a…
May 24, 2019
Too late now for Theresa May, but Australia has just provided a lesson: get the politics right first and worry about the consequences later, writes Geoff Kitney. When Theresa May picked up…
April 15, 2019
The young have taken to the streets in peaceful protest showing governments that they too have a voice. The upcoming Australian election may prove them right, says Geoff Kitney. As the world…
March 22, 2019
Brexit has cruelly exposed the western world’s lack of leadership, nowhere more than in the United Kingdom. Murray Ritchie poses the question: How did it come to this? In the good old…
January 7, 2019
Can the United Kingdom as currently constituted survive Brexit? Probably not, suggests Murray Ritchie. Later this month Britain’s House of Lords will debate the future constitutional stability, or lack of it, of…