McConnell

As Rangers fans prepare to adopt the Miss Havisham role after being jilted by the alacrity of Steven Gerrard’s return south of the border, it is worth posting a reminder of just how quickly things can move in a football context. And…

WASHINGTON: The idea of the United States government breaching its "debt limit" sounds scary. But what, exactly, are lawmakers in Washington fighting about? The debt limit is a nearly century-old artificial cap that Congress placed on the…

The last time the issue surfaced, in August 2019, Congress and President Donald J. Trump suspended the debt limit through July 31 of this year. On Aug. 2, Treasury reset the debt limit to $28.4 trillion, and the government crashed through…

IT is difficult at this juncture to conceive of anything that could make the hidebound Johnson administration take the action necessary to mitigate a UK supply-chain crisis rooted firmly in the hard Brexit folly and exacerbated by the…

ANYONE looking at what is in front of them without red, white and blue blinkers is surely only too aware of the worsening staff shortages and supply-chain troubles facing the UK. Amid the ideological quagmire in which the UK finds…

THE scale of the challenges facing our city and town centres was thrown into stark relief when walking in Glasgow around lunchtime on a recent weekday. Of course, many or most of us will have been long aware of these challenges. They…

THIS week’s announcement by fast-food chain Nando’s of a temporary closure of dozens of its restaurants in Great Britain because of supply-chain woes would, in normal times, have come as a major surprise. After all, the UK has not…

THERE has been a tendency, amid the terrible human tragedy of the coronavirus pandemic, for people to scrabble around for things which could be positive legacies of this miserable time. It is probably human nature to seek out…

IT has been another dramatic week in post-Brexit Britain, with the possibility of the Army being required to step in to deliver food amid an alarming shortage of heavy goods vehicle drivers having made headlines. Sadly, it seems…

THE astounding degree of turbulence in the UK Government’s policy-making on international travel conjures up the image of weary, bemused airline passengers scrabbling around nervously for the paper bag in the seat pocket in front of…