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I ran this story in my column on Substack just over three years ago, and I am running it again so new subscribers will have a chance to read it. It’s a piece I wrote for the late lamented New Times Magazine in 1977, on assignment from my editor, John Lombardi. I’ve never written about how I got...
Albania has a population of 2.8 million people, according to data published at the start of 2021. Since the fall of communism in 1991 nearly 40% of Albania’s population has left...
Implications for real assets demand. The repercussions of Covid-19 will continue to be felt long after the final phases of the pandemic are over. Assumptions that are underpinned...
Marunouchi: the quest for perfection Perfectionism is very important in Japan. In the collective national quest to slowly achieve the immaculate, Tokyo’s Marunouchi...
The High Pay Centre has just published its latest report on the remuneration of FTSE-100 CEOs. As usual, the report shows median pay which, by most people’s standards,...
A few years ago, the chess website Chess.com temporarily banned US grandmaster Hans Niemann for playing chess moves online that the site suspected had been suggested to him by a...
Unfair, excessive and bad in law. In this very special series of exclusive articles for The Property Chronicle, Australian property legend Norman Harker reflects on his...
A look at the transformation of Japan’s major regional cities. Overall, demand in the office markets in Japan looks to have plateaued for now, with contracted rents remaining...
Kyiv’s counteroffensive in the north-east of Ukraine appeared to take everyone by surprise, not least Russia’s war planners who had been moving troops south to meet an offensive...
Why food crime is so much more than counterfeit chocolate bars. In recent years, Londoners and tourists in the UK capital will have noticed an influx of American sweet shops....