What can you think when you realise that the chairman of the International Business Advisory Council - charged with safeguarding London’s pre-eminence as a business centre - is about to move his own HQ to Ireland?
Such is the position of Sir Martin Sorrell, head of advertising conglomerate WPP, who announced last week that he was [...]

In the early hours of what was a sunny Sunday morning (how unlike today) I drove from Shropshire to London to appear on a London Weekend Television programme debating the forthcoming referendum on giving Scotland and Wales devolved governments.
It was the morning after the funeral of Princess Diana and all along the route into London [...]

Since coming to power in 1997 the British Labour Government has introduced 3,605 new offences – an average of one every day!
You really have to wonder what on earth any government thinks it is doing by introducing a new criminal offence every day. Are they necessary? Are they desirable? Have they made the public safer?
The [...]

The concept of a canal goes back almost to the day that European explorers first landed on the narrow land bridge that links North and South America.
They realised that the abundant natural lakes and waterways offered a unique opportunity to create a water passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans but it wasn’t until technological [...]

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro was born in the Oriente province of eastern Cuba.
He is still alive but it can only be a matter of time before his control is finally broken and Cuba again becomes a member of the international community. When that happens there are going to be massive business opportunities so it’s probably [...]

In the early hours of 2nd August more than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invaded the Gulf state of Kuwait.
The Iraqi forces established a provisional government and President Saddam Hussein gave a speech in which he threatened to turn Kuwait city into a “graveyard” if any other country dared to challenge the [...]

The European Economic Area consists of all the member states of the European Union plus three of the four European Free Trade Association (EFTA) states, namely Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein. By treaty the EFTA states have been allowed to be part of the European Single Market without being required to join the EU.
The Fourth EFTA [...]