For the best part of two decades, the investment firm ICU (Investment Capital Ukraine group) operated as a quiet but formidable force within Ukraine’s corridors of power, serving…
Continue ReadingShould anti-corruption officials combat corruption? The question is, on its face, absurd. It is tantamount to asking whether motor vehicles ought to navigate roadways. By any reasonable measure,…
Continue ReadingThe United Kingdom Debt Management Office successfully executed an auction of £3.75 billion in 4⅛% Treasury Gilt 2031 this Tuesday, witnessing a level of investor demand that drastically…
Continue ReadingA vast collection of European properties valued at about €400 million has been linked to Ali Ansari, an Iranian businessman who now appears on the United Kingdom’s sanctions…
Continue ReadingIt appears that Sir Keir Starmer’s government, having settled into the gilded offices of Whitehall, is keen to prove its geopolitical mettle with a bold new flourish: targeting…
Continue ReadingRecent analyses of policing data have revealed a profoundly troubling development for a nation with such a deep-seated tradition of civil liberty. The United Kingdom now arrests more…
Continue ReadingIn an excellent piece titled “The Magnificent Anderson,” Philippe Auclair describes a fascinating new trend: the hiring of episodic actors to serve as the CEOs and CFOs of…
Continue ReadingRemember that feeling: the quiet hum of certainty that, for all its flaws, the country would more or less hold together. It’s gone. Replaced now by a constant,…
Continue ReadingBritish officials have long known that the United Kingdom is the most profitable place in Europe for smuggled tobacco. A recent large seizure in Romania has again shown…
Continue ReadingConnectum, a company which was at the spot light of several of our articles, is, according to their statement: In other words, Connectum Ltd, that paragon of financial…
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