Graeme Mackay

It seems as if Britain doesn't really know what it wants to get out of the Brexit deal.

Jun 28, 2017

After all the election hullabaloo, the real concern is that Britain is just as divided as ever over Brexit.

Jun 14, 2017

President-elect may well have two ladies to back, guide and support him – if as yet no parliamentary representation.

May 08, 2017

Hopefully we can avoid nuclear war this week

Apr 20, 2017

"We became truly independent, no longer a colonial economy and more inclined to shake off the emotional and cultural vestiges of the colonial relationship."

Mar 31, 2017

Who or what is Cheollima Civil Defense?

Mar 10, 2017

China will take a strong interest in the fate of Kim Jong-nam

Feb 22, 2017

The countries "banned" by President Trump cannot or do not cooperate with US vetting and intelligence services

Feb 01, 2017

Trump has been hoist with his own petard.

Dec 06, 2016

The clock is ticking and Mr and Mrs Trump should not be measuring the White House curtains just yet.

Nov 25, 2016

The Government should not use the Crown's prerogative in the manner they have done and should present to Parliament their proposals for leaving the EU.

Nov 08, 2016

The Conservative majority was slashed by nearly 20,000 votes

Oct 24, 2016

There's still lots of life in Labour, and it is working, but only in part.

Sep 24, 2016

At least six countries in the EU have issues with parts of the Agreement and might delay, if not block ratification. Brexiteers be warned.

Aug 22, 2016

Ms Sturgeon should give Brexit a rest, resist populist legislation and help Scotland's flattened economy

Aug 01, 2016

Brexit has highlighted a real and maybe widening divide between Scotland and England in a way that the Referendum on Scottish Independence did not.

Jul 19, 2016

Mr Gove's deliberate hard line position could potentially isolate Britain from its biggest market.

Jun 20, 2016

Labour may still be dominant in Wales but the times when some constituencies weren't even contested are now in the very distant past.

May 31, 2016

Labour of all the parties in Scotland, will have to take a long, hard look to determine just where in the political spectrum it wishes to be.

May 11, 2016

The motive to join Europe was purely economic but one has to ask whether any politician had bothered to read the clauses on "ever closer integration"

May 11, 2016

Energy pricing and climate change policy may have to be revised if Britain is to have a long-term and viable steel industry.

Apr 12, 2016

Even allotting 100 per cent of oil and gas revenues to the Scottish exchequer would not eliminate what has become Scotland's annual Budget Deficit.

Mar 16, 2016

Alec Salmond gave a commitment that the 2007 freeze would be extended throughout the life of the 2011 Scottish Parliament

Mar 08, 2016

Between 1987, when Ben Ali inherited a somewhat broken economy and 2007, Tunisia's growth averaged about five per cent annually.

Feb 01, 2016

In a letter marked "MOST URGENT" to the United Nations in New York on 24 November, Turkey claimed that it did not know the nationality of the downed SU-24M.

Dec 02, 2015

A big company trying to stave off future competition by killing off its rival before it has even finished construction of its factory is not unheard of, if a little drastic.

Nov 12, 2015

That loss was about half of all the steel produced in the UK for 2014.

Oct 16, 2015

Few can claim there was much of credibility during Corbyn's first week as leader of the opposition.

Sep 21, 2015

"I looked for soul-searching, for penitence, for a sign that the lessons of defeat had been taken to heart...This would have been a good day for the Japanese press to begin telling the people the real and complete story of the war and defeat"

Sep 01, 2015