Mark Curtis: UK sees privatisation ‘opportunities’ in Ukraine war

, Export Bans. Sanctions. Investment screens. The liberal trading order has been weaponized; security, not efficiency, is the new watchword. And yet, 2023 has seen an all-time high of goods traded across borders. Even bilateral […]

The new EU member states have sussed it out: the political class makes the laws – for themselves and their wealthy clientel. It took a while, but they are finally integrated in the European Union. […]

Watching the trials of the Catalan independentists now taking place at Spain’s highest court in Madrid, I have been reminded again and again of a scene from director Hal Ashby’s marvelous 1979 movie Being There. Read here