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A few weeks ago, I was arranging a meeting with of his time between London, Dubai and Riyadh, this international man of built environment mystery isn’t well suited to a desk-for-hire in one city or another’s stock of flexi office space. Instead, he is one of a growing number of nomadic...
What now in the house? The lengthy speakership battle in the House of Representatives this month ended with both sides able to declare victory. This is the best outcome for the...
And the UK needs to become a real player This was a disappointing week for the embryonic British space industry when the first ever launch from the UK ended up with a big splash...
Why it’s so hard to run a sustainable innovation-focused restaurant For over a decade, Noma in Copenhagen has been one of the standard bearers of the high-end culinary world....
Last week brought some news which caught my eye. On Thursday, Bloomberg told us this: Germany’s housing boom is over as prices for residential properties dropped for the first...
For most companies, recessions cause a short-term dip in earnings and perhaps even dividends, but recessions are also an opportunity for the strong to take market share from the...
Has Paris really stolen the limelight from the City of London? In late 2022, the French press exulted at the news that Paris’s market capitalisation had overtaken London’s. While...
With Russian troops digging trenches to prepare for an expected winter standoff, it would be easy to conclude that fighting will slow in Ukraine until after the ground thaws in...
‘Flexible working’ could mean many things. To employers such as the train-operating companies, it might mean unions which are prepared to change rigid rostering systems dating...
Ukraine’s successful counteroffensive in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions means that a large chunk of the country’s Russian-speaking southeast is returning to the Ukrainian...