The news yesterday that the doom-laden trade dispute, between the giant American planemaker Boeing and its small Canadian rival Bombardier, may have been resolved only…
This post is taken from my Padua address at the launch of Radix Italy (see full text). Everywhere in the world we are seeing a…
I am a huge admirer of Paddy Ashdown’s new political movement, More United. Yes, it sounds like a new kind of football club. But I…
I always listen to the actor Adrian Dunbar. Partly because he shaped my favourite film (Hear My Song) and partly because he is exactly my…
Exit from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) may be one of the few things that offer Britain a real opportunity for a better future following…
I have spent the last few days in the picturesque valley that wends its way between Abergavenny and Hay-on-Wye, which has to be one of…
One of the first policies enacted by the innovative New Zealand government of David Lange in the late 1980s was to remove all agricultural subsidies….
The G20 meeting this week was more successful than one would have dared hope. Apart from the violence and street riots, that is. The meeting…
Where are the best broadband services in the UK? Hands up anyone who guessed Hull. In 1904, “a quirk of history gave Hull and East…
It was something of a moment of revelation – a wake-up call – when what passes for a general election campaign suddenly saw a bizarre…
We keep hearing about the benefits of global trade. Undoubtedly there are many. But can things be taken too far? Fishing has suddenly hit the…