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Ian McconnellHerald Scotland |
Consumers’ continuing voracious appetite for overseas holidays has been thrown into stark relief again in recent days. easyJet last Wednesday...
As the Scottish Budget looms, large segments of the business community appear to be oozing discontent. It is fair to say relations between the...
Package holiday giant and airline Jet2’s latest results made for fascinating reading. The general tone around the economy, notably including from...
Brexit has been sharply in focus again in the aftermath of Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey having offered his tuppence worth on something that,...
The topic of free university tuition for people in Scotland has been back in the headlines in recent days. It is never that far from the headlines...
It says much about the in-denial Brexiters that a simple statement of fact from the Bank of England Governor, made in the most cautious of ways, has...
It has been a big week for Scottish airports. Last Monday, Prestwick Airport revealed that it had made a fifth consecutive annual profit. This is...
News that the owner of Glasgow and Aberdeen airports is being acquired by one of Canada’s largest pension investors came somewhat out of the blue...
It was extremely heartening to learn on Monday that Prestwick Airport had achieved a fifth consecutive year of profit. You would imagine this news...
Tourism has been very much in focus in Scotland in the last week, in a positive way. Donald Trump’s presidential election victory naturally...
It would be difficult to overstate the scale of the employment and economic boost to the Scottish Borders promised by Center Parcs. The holiday...
The rallying call from an Oban hotel manager, hammering home the importance of driving winter tourism at seaside towns such as the one in which he...
It is “vital” hoteliers play their part in ensuring tourism in some of Scotland’s “most iconic locations” can be sustained year-round, a...
It has been quite a week, with Rachel Reeves delivering a seismic Budget. Given the number of Budgets and other fiscal events during years of...
Rachel Reeves mentioned Brexit briefly in her Budget speech. Referring to the Conservatives, she declared: “Their Brexit deal harmed British...
Rachel Reeves’ Budget felt like a very big one indeed, with a major call in hiking employers’ national insurance contributions by £25 billion a...
The latest survey of the attitude of businesses to the Scottish Government surely makes for miserable reading for the SNP. The findings are stark. ...
The elephant in the room has been looming large but Sir Keir Starmer has continued to studiously ignore it. That elephant, for anyone who has...
While the overall mood has been more than gloomy amid some grim signals from the new Labour Government on what the October 30 Budget might hold, this...
What business most wants to see from the new Labour Government, revealed in a survey published this week, should provide much food for thought for...
As we await the new Labour Government’s Budget on October 30, there seems like a lot more gloom and trepidation than hope when it comes to the...
It has been nauseating and excruciating in broadly equal measure to observe Boris Johnson trying to claim Brexit has somehow been positive as he has...
To say that Sir Keir Starmer has made Rikki Fulton’s Reverend I.M. Jolly character look upbeat would not be too much of a stretch. And at least...
The return of peak rail fares has been the subject of some very heated debate in the last week. It is, as noted in my column in The Herald on...
Even though it was an eventuality well trailed by Petroineos back in November, confirmation last month Grangemouth oil refinery would be closing was...
It has been difficult this week not to be aghast at Scottish Labour’s criticism of the decision by the SNP Government to reintroduce peak fares at...
Scotch whisky distiller William Grant & Sons unveiled its latest financial results in a somewhat understated manner this week. In a press release,...
The sale of The Famous Grouse Scotch whisky brand has certainly been among the most eye-catching developments in the last week, from a Scottish...
Sir Keir Starmer mentioned “Brexit” just once in his speech to the Labour Party Conference this week - in the context of immigration. It was...
It has seemed that Scotch whisky distiller Edrington has in recent times been making much less noise about The Famous Grouse than it did in the past. ...
Last Wednesday saw the 10th anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum. In some ways, it seems like it was not that long ago. However, in...
The new Labour Government has been in full spin cycle since taking power but, two-and-a-half months on from its election victory, it has yet to come...
For the more hysterical of the Scottish Government’s critics, a survey on businesses’ views of how devolved income tax policy has affected them...
Petroineos’s announcement of the closure of the Grangemouth oil refinery might have been all but inevitable but it was absolutely grim nonetheless. ...
The Grangemouth oil refinery is undoubtedly one of Scotland’s most famous industrial sites. On a school trip to the site some decades ago, when it...
The new Labour Government is, with every day that passes, looking ever more like a miserly householder gripping their money in both hands and holding...
It has not felt like the most uplifting of weeks on the business and economic front. This is no great surprise, given the miserable UK economic...
The Scottish Government’s decision to reintroduce peak train fares at ScotRail has been among the big stories of the last month. It was revealed...
UK touring musicians should not hold their breath for any kind of easing of the nightmare bureaucracy that Boris Johnson’s hard Brexit has brought...
To say that the new Labour Government has been pussyfooting about in lamentable ways in key areas would be quite the understatement. However, in one...
Sir Keir Starmer has had quite the week. Firstly, last Tuesday, we had the eventual delivery of a well-trailed speech in the garden of Downing...
Sir Keir Starmer says he is “absolutely clear” the UK Government wants to “reset” relations with the European Union. However, those who know...
The Scottish economy grew by 0.6% quarter-on-quarter in the three months to June, matching the UK-wide rate of expansion, official figures published...
Reading the trail of Sir Keir Starmer’s speech over the weekend, and listening to it today, it was difficult to shake the notion that we were back...
Aberdeen oil services company Wood, one of Scotland’s big publicly quoted companies, was in focus last week as it delivered results hard on the...
It was certainly disappointing to hear this week that peak train fares were being reintroduced from late next month at the Scottish Government’s...
There are those who at times seem determined at every opportunity to present Scotland as an unattractive place in which to invest, and some of them...
The last week has seen some welcome reassurance on a couple of quite different fronts. Royal Bank of Scotland’s latest growth tracker report...
As the end of summer comes into sight, it looks as if the UK’s overseas travel sector remains in impressively solid shape and particularly so given...
There was much to be cheerful about, from a Scottish perspective, in Royal Bank of Scotland’s latest growth tracker report published this week. ...