Mpox is not COVID-19, but that pandemic’s bitter lessons have not all been learnt. By Peter Fabricius An ominous sense of déjà vu is...

By Ian Storey On 31 July Prabowo Subianto, Indonesia’s current defence minister and president-elect, paid a working visit to Russia.[1] The...

A bit of history Islamic finance during the time of the Prophet Muhammad was characterized by real transactions such as sale on credit and...

A bit of history Islamic finance during the time of the Prophet Muhammad was characterized by real transactions such as sale on credit and...

The Australian government has been in a banning mood of late. In keeping with an old, puritanical tradition, the killjoys and wowsers have seized...

By Russell Greene ESG investing poses a grave threat to the principles that lifted billions out of poverty. It neither does much good nor performs...

By Russell Greene ESG investing poses a grave threat to the principles that lifted billions out of poverty. It neither does much good nor performs...

perfect storm of crises has been building. It comes from still bubbling rage with governments for their single-minded obsession with Covid and the...

By Rebecca Gordon Washington Postheadlinereads: “A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won’t retire.” For the first time...

Early one morning in February 2023, before the sun rose over Phoenix, Ravi Coutinho went on a walk and, for a brief moment, thought about hurling his...