With oil in decline, Scottish economy falters under SNP
The Scottish economy has faltered, partly due to declining North Sea oil reserves. But the Scottish National Party not only needs to be honest about that, it also needs to explain why poor economic performance relative to the rest of the UK has coincided with its own period in government
- 11 April 2017
Cheaper oil: more of a curate’s egg than a total blessing
Falling oil prices are great for consumers, and industry. They're bad for Putin and Saudi. But they're also bad for Britain's oil industry, and could potentially be highly destabilising in Africa and the MidEast. It's more complex than it appears
- 21 December 2014
Oil is well for American independence
The US, paradoxically, is now all at once the world’s largest producer, consumer, and importer of oil. This should change the dynamics of global politics in the West's favour. But with Obama at the helm...
- 12 November 2014
The coming Arab Winter
While the extent of the fracking-induced geopolitical tremors are still to be felt, the shaking up of the Middle East's tyrannical oil policies is moving the regional tectonic plates as politics never could
- 1 May 2013
Israel: the coming energy superpower
The impact of the coming rise of Israel as a regional energy superpower plainly heralds significant and imminent changes in the Middle East, and beyond
- 5 April 2013
US set to become world's largest oil producer by 2020
Could the US' move towards energy independence and supremacy throw a spanner in the works for some of the world's most despotic regimes?
- 14 November 2012
Iran or no Iran, there will be oil
If, as looks increasingly likely, conflict over Iran’s nuclear ambitions is approaching, two things are clear: Shia Iran’s Sunni ‘friends’ will not stand with them and, Iran or no Iran, there will be oil
- 28 September 2012
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