Special Relationship, Episode 1

Special Relationship, Episode 1
This election cycle has been unpredicatable enough already. But what would happen if another terrorist attack, along the lines of those carried out in San Bernardino, Paris and Brussels were to happen in America before the...

Dip your toe in the Maldives

Dip your toe in the Maldives
THE moment I’ve made myself comfortable on the speedboat that is taking me from the Maldivian capital of Malé to the resort of Gili Lankanfushi a beaming crew member comes over and offers me a cotton bag marked “No Shoes,...

Royal Bank of Scotland in £968m spiral into red

Royal Bank of Scotland in £968m spiral into red
ROYAL Bank of Scotland investors may have to wait until 2018 for a dividend amid concerns over large fines and delays to offloading Williams & Glyn as the bank plunged £968million into the red in the first quarter. Source:...

The mysterious power of Trump’s garish buildings

The mysterious power of Trump’s garish buildings
IT IS easy to laugh at the image of a Donald Trump-designed White House, if not at the idea of Mr Trump himself as an occupant. Emblazoned with the family name in two-foot-high bronze letters, fitted with gold fixtures...

What is the point of the Arab League?

What is the point of the Arab League?
WITH Syria and Libya aflame, with Iran challenging the Gulf Arabs for mastery of the region and with America questioning its role as ultimate guarantor of stability, this ought to have been a time, one might have thought,...