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Smoking and drinking: Churchill sets an example today’s Western leaders can learn from

To understand that Western emphasis on human rights is at best a fig leaf to do business with autocrats whose rule is based on...

UNESCO Rewards Outstanding Teacher Initiatives in Chile, Indonesia and the UK

Three programmes designed to empower teachers have been named as winners of the 2017-2018 UNESCO-Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize: The Center for Mathematic Modeling...

Disinformation as a tool for destabilizing enterprises: Shell /Greenpeace and Elf-Shell/ Ran

On February 16th, 1995, the British government authorized the oil company Shell to sink the Brent oil spar off the coast of Scotland. The...

Ireland recovering strongly but weak productivity and Brexit cloud outlook

The Irish economy is recovering robustly. Business investment by local firms has picked up, household consumption is reviving while the boost to jobs and...

The Looming Brexit Deadline: What to Expect in March 2019?

On June 23, 2016, an historic vote in the United Kingdom forever changed the course of history.  The UK voted to break away economically...

5 ways the United Kingdom is leading the fight against plastic pollution

We’re only two months into 2018, but this year has already seen a number of concrete steps to combat plastic pollution in the United...

Rethinking of May’s visit to China

Recently, an article appeared in The Economist under the headline of “Macartney’s heir” which touches on the British PM’s visit to China. Actually, it...

Scotland – 45 years in the European Union

The possibility of Scotland leaving the UK is looming large the closer we get to March 2019. This comes despite all the immediate defense...

Brexit Second Referendum: Will Britain Have a Sudden Change of Heart?

The Brexit referendum results provoked an unprecedented upheaval and political meltdown in the United Kingdom; as a result, in March 2017, the United Kingdom...

Financing and Managing Nuclear Energy Risks: The UK Model

Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) have long lifetimes and low running costs, but they require high up-front capital expenses and a long planning and construction...

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