by Stewart Jackson | Sep 30, 2020 | Insight
Boris Johnson has confounded his critics before, and he’ll probably do so again, not least because there’s method in his madness. You have to go back four hundred years to 1517 to fully appreciate the strategy being adopted by Boris Johnson and Lord David...
by David Campbell Bannerman | Sep 25, 2020 | Insight
Who wants to rule the world, or running the world’s trading system at least? The race is well underway. Of eight original runners and riders for Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), we are now down to five, one of whom is our very own former...
by Patrick O’Flynn | Sep 21, 2020 | Insight
Taking a “middle of the road” approach often gets politicians a bad name. Some people find it far more comfortable to deal in absolutes. And indeed many political problems do resolve themselves better if gone at from a fundamental or principled stance. The...
by David Campbell Bannerman | Sep 10, 2020 | Insight
The tranquillity of Lake Geneva, with its powerful fountain, mellow buildings and unhurried paddle steamers, hardly seems like the place for billion-dollar global legal battles fought between nation states. But the Appellate body of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...
by Suzanne Evans | Sep 8, 2020 | News
The latest episodes in the online culture wars saw the Co-op squaring up to the Spectator, and Superdrug squaring up to women. First, to the Co-op: an anonymous twitter account named Lisa, with a butterfly for a profile pic and fewer than 300 followers, suggested the...
