Author Archives: Nick Corbishley

With vax mandates looming and industrial action on the table, the UK’s overstretched National Health Service could be in for a winter of even more discontent.

After last year’s economic carnage, the spectre of runaway inflation is the last thing the region needs.

Twenty banks (some suffering repeated outages), six countries (one in lockdown), five continents, tens of millions of unhappy customers.

This time it’s patients’ biometrics — their most sensitive data of all — that appear to be at risk.

The UK’s biggest bank is exposed to Evergrande and the Chinese real estate market. It’s also trapped in the middle of an escalating economic war between the world’s two superpowers.

AMLO’s proposal: to build an alliance of states within Latin American and the Caribbean, and then pursue economic integration with the United States and Canada. 

In retaliation, the energy companies have even threatened to shut down nuclear plants, which would decimate Spain’s energy supplies. 

As the UK government prepares to pass its Fire Safety Act, concerns are growing that it could leave even more apartment owners in limbo.

Global travel is still far from returning to anything like the conditions that existed prior to the pandemic — at least for non-essential travellers.

Latin America helped transform Spanish firms into global ones. But conditions are changing and some are getting cold feet.

Just as importantly, why is the regulator laying off 20% of its workforce in the midst of a global pandemic?

It’s the first time a high court of a European Member State has challenged the use of vaccine passports domestically.

Operating on the maxim of “never let a good crisis go to waste”, the government is exploiting the pandemic to embed even more private interests across the system.