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There has always been a chasm between the rich West and the developing world in their attitude to decarbonisation, because of the different stages of [...]

Inflation is well and truly back. With prices rising across the economy, years of reckless money-printing has come home to roost. Central banks are (at least [...]

The age of globalisation, which started with the fall of the Iron Curtain, is on the wane. For decades, the world economy became increasingly interconnected [...]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought about an unprecedented international response, both in terms of speed and magnitude. We have already written about [...]

There is war in Europe, and for the first time since the Second World War, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has spilled over from a regional conflict into a [...]

After months of sabre-rattling, last week Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, finally gave the order to invade Ukraine, and the world’s attention was [...]

Freedom used to be a universally held value. From John Locke to Martin Luther King, from the French Revolution and the American War of Independence to the [...]

Throughout the last two years is has been both fascinating and horrifying to see how quickly supposedly free people have been stripped of their rights in the [...]

Being funny is difficult but laughing is easy. Or at least, it used to be. These days, you better beware what jokes you find funny. A Scottish politician [...]

To much fanfare, the UN’s latest gathering to discuss climate change, the 26th such summit, is taking place in Glasgow, attracting world leaders and [...]