October 12, 2017
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) yesterday presented their analysis of how emerging digital technologies will profoundly disrupt the operations of global industry and commerce, reports John Egan from Paris….
October 10, 2017
The UK’s devolved nations could be the rocks upon which a Brexit deal is wrecked, writes Murray Ritchie. For months Scotland and Wales have been complaining that Theresa May’s approach to Brexit…
September 21, 2017
Two courtiers – the EU and UK – are competing for Australia’s and New Zealand’s hand in a new trade relationship, Geoff Kitney writes. It must be reassuring to the Brexit crowd,…
September 6, 2017
British negotiators in Brussels are missing the point and will never win a good deal. Why? Because the European Union is more about politics than economics, writes Murray Ritchie. Many years ago…
September 2, 2017
C’est la rentrée. It is the time when France sees the annual migration of its people returning from rural or maritime retreats to the great conurbations. John Egan describes a sense that…
July 25, 2017
Political parties create conflict, always highlighting the differences between them. There’s no political advantage in finding common ground, writes Dave Rawlings. An earlier article has looked at how each of us lives…
June 22, 2017
This is the time to future proof the European Union, writes Geoff Kitney. For Anglophiles, these are disconcerting times. In their worldview, recent political events have jarred and turned upside down deeply…
June 12, 2017
Add together the Scottish contingent in the Commons – 35 SNP, 13 Tories, seven Labour and four Liberal Democrats – and you find a formidable bloc for Britain either remaining in the…
June 7, 2017
A ‘tax shopping’ industry worth between $100 billion and $240 billion a year was enthusiastically consigned to history at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris today, John Egan…
May 12, 2017
May and Macron are treading diverging paths in the ever-complex Brexit era, writes Geoff Kitney. Two events in recent days have perfectly captured the essence of Brexit and the future of…