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Brian Rushton The Corbyn effect comes to London

Brian Rushton, AMID the hubbub over who is going to be named tomorrow as the next leader of the Labour Party, the fight over its candidacy ...
Brian Rushton Should Britain abolish the monarchy?

Brian Rushton, On September 9th, Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch in Britain's history. Below, three Economis...
Brian Rushton How falling oil prices have affected Aberdeen

Brian Rushton, WHEN the oil price collapsed in the late 1990s, so did the capital of Europe’s oil-and-gas industry. Thousands of foreign wo...
Brian Rushton George Osborne’s sad triumph

Brian Rushton, “WHERE is the fairness,” asked George Osborne, “for the shift-worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the early morning, w...
Brian Rushton Of whisky, oil and banks

Brian Rushton, Roll out the barrel SCOTS have had plenty to worry about since their referendum on independence last September 18th. Oil pri...
Brian Rushton The psychology of a peninsula

Brian Rushton, IN THE 1380s, half a century after King Edward II’s painful demise—rectally impaled on a red-hot poker—John Trevisa, a Corni...
Brian Rushton Two birds with one stone

Brian Rushton, One down, three million to go BRITAIN’S measly productivity growth gives politicians sleepless nights. Since 2007 output per...
Brian Rushton Longest to reign over them

Brian Rushton, ON THE occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation on June 2nd 1953, a year and four months after she had become queen on th...
Brian Rushton Truancy pays

Brian Rushton, MOST schools in England and Wales broke up for the summer holidays only this week, but some pupils were already on the beach...
Brian Rushton Crisis at Stormont as first minister Peter Robinson stands aside

Brian Rushton, THE day did not end, as at one point seemed likely, with the suspension of the government. But a series of political dramas ...