Andrew Cave
Oliver Cromwell once described English land law as “an ungodly jumble”. More than 350 years later, Dag Detter has a similar view of the way cities and countries value what they own. Their property and
Andrew Cave
Simon Anholt has a message for US president-elect Joe Biden. Countries that do the right thing for the world, not just for themselves, benefit not just morally but also financially and economically. “The nations most
Andrew Cave
In his new book, The Good Country Equation: How We Can Repair the World in One Generation, Simon Anholt identifies key policies that some of the 56 countries he has advised have pursued to boost
Andrew Cave
Stephane Farouze has an even more improbable story than Alfred Jones, Ewan McGregor’s scientist in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. While that $35m-grossing romantic comedy about efforts to populate desert wadis with Scottish salmon focused on
Andrew Cave
Of all the global companies that might come to the rescue of the traditional corporate office, Facebook was not expected to be at the front of the line. As Covid-19 turns cities into ghost towns
Andrew Cave
As the United Nations turns 75, what better time to assess who has been the multilateral giant’s best secretary-general? While the organisation’s many detractors may prefer to debate the identity of the worst, the holders
Andrew Cave
“Beyond Petroleum” is a slogan Bernard Looney, the newish BP chief executive and a ‘lifer’ at the oil major, will never be allowed to forget. Nineteen years ago, when the company was under the command
Andrew Cave
Before Covid-19 gripped the world in a pandemic, myriad forecasts were made about the transfer of risk from the public to the private sector. With rising populations, governments would rely increasingly on private investors and
Andrew Cave
Britain’s squeezed property market and the John Lewis Partnership’s motto of never being “knowingly undersold” are not comfortable bedfellows. Democratized controversially by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s sale of publicly-owned council homes to their residents in the 1980s, housing