David Pratt
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Contributing Foreign Editor at The Herald (Scotland)
Journalist, photographer, broadcaster, painter. Contributing Foreign Editor @heraldscotland @ScotNational contributor @BBCScotland @BBCWorld Views own
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1 week ago |
thenational.scot | David Pratt
America’s motives – like so many other historic occupiers of Afghanistan – have never been driven by altruism or concern for the Afghan people (Image: Marcus Yam) THERE’S a curious rumour doing the rounds right now on the foreign affairs beat. I say rumour, but there is some evidence to suggest that it’s a bit more than that.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | David Pratt
China upped the ante in the trade war last Friday by retaliating with 125% tariffs on US goods (Image: Getty Images) Trump’s tariffs may have paused for now, but not where Beijing is concerned. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines the struggle between the world’s two biggest economies It can often be daunting for those “lesser mortals” among us to grasp the seemingly remote but often profoundly significant machinations of global trading.
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1 week ago |
mondaq.com | Joshua B. Glaser |Albert W Gortz |David Pratt |Mitchell M Gaswirth
The April 2025 Section 7520 rate for use with estate planningtechniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and GRATs is 5.00%, which is0.40% less than the March 2025 rate.
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2 weeks ago |
thenational.scot | David Pratt
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington IF Chinese knees are supposed to be knocking over Donald Trump’s tariffs, then there seems little sign of it. At first glance it admittedly didn’t look good for Beijing yesterday when Trump’s eyewatering levies of 104% were thrown its way. But to use a boxing analogy the “red corner” came out fighting, punching back with 84% tariffs of its own.
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2 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | David Pratt
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference alongside Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister What once was little more than the fantasy of a few zealots and fanatics who desired Gaza to be part of a “Greater Israel” is fast becoming a reality writes Foreign Editor David Pratt Israel’s war in Gaza has a sinister lexicon all of its own.
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