By Ian Fraser Published: Sunday Herald Date: September 21st 2008 It was at a lavish party at Spencer House, the opulent former London residence of the family of Diana, Princess of Wales, that HBOS’s fate was sealed. Sir Victor Blank, the city grandee who has been chairman of Lloyds TSB since May 2006, had been [...]
By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald September 7th, 2008 Global threat is from geopolitics, not the credit crunch THE SCOTTISH historian Niall Ferguson has warned that the strategic alliance between China and Russia is more of a threat to the West than the credit crunch. Ferguson, a best-selling author, broadcaster and professor of history at Harvard [...]
By Ian Fraser and Mark Macaskill The Sunday Times August 5th, 2007 It is the site of one of Scotland’s most famous victories over the Auld Enemy yet is marked only by a delapidated coal bing and an anonymous cairn. Now, more than 250 years after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite forces routed the Hanoverian troops [...]
By Ian Fraser The Sunday Times Ecosse section March 18th, 2007 A former army captain is set to trek from John O’Groats to Land’s End WHEN the former army captain Grant Nicolle was casting around for the perfect antidote to the stresses and strains of the financial world, he alighted on his love of horses. [...]
By Ian Fraser The Scotsman December 13th, 2006 David Stamp, architect and sailor Born: 12 August, 1943, in Edinburgh. Died: 18 November, 2006, in North Berwick, aged 64. DAVID Stamp was an enthusiastic conservationist-turned-developer who played a big part in the renovation and redevelopment of Leith and Edinburgh’s New Town. Stamp, who was born in [...]
By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald Magazine November 5th, 2006 From Chopin to the fall of Communism, Gdansk promises a break that is alive with history. GDANSK, an architectural gem on the Baltic coast, was almost completely destroyed by the Red Army in 1944-45. Luckily many of the grand Hanseatic buildings in its medieval town centre [...]
By Ian Fraser Financial Times Business Life page August 29th, 2006 Companies adopting viral campaigns need to be more creative than in traditional media – and beware of the many pitfalls, says Ian Fraser Warner Music’s deal last week to promote Paris Hilton’s debut album on YouTube, the fast-growing video-sharing website, may make the socialite’s [...]
By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald August 27th, 2006 VAN VLISSINGEN: FINAL ACT Billionaire’s Tournaig purchase was ‘philanthropic’ PAUL van Vlissingen, the billionaire owner of the Letterewe Estate, was still actively enlarging his Highland property interests up until his death in his Dutch home, Lunenberg Castle, near Utrecht. Within the last few weeks, van Vlissingen – [...]
By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald April 16th, 2006 Why? This is probably the most stylish and comfortable hotel in Glasgow city centre, beating the likes of Hilton, Marriott and Thistle, thanks partly to its newness. The room I stayed in was large, had a modern Scandinavian feel to it, came with a selection of berries [...]
By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald April 2nd, 2006 IAN FRASER ON NEW LABOUR SPIN While Tony Blair preaches climate change measures to the rest of the world, his government has deliberately excluded aviation from its greenhouse gases calculations RADIOHEAD singer Thom Yorke recently said that he finds dealing with the New Labour spin-machine on [...]
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