Author Archives: Nick Corbishley

Is the UK’s Cladding Crisis About to Get Even Worse?

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

After a Long, Hard Summer, Southern Europe’s Long Awaited Tourism Recovery Remains Largely Elusive

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

As US Prepares to Ban Ivermectin for Covid-19, More Countries in Asia Begin Using It

The information war takes a dark turn as the corporate media transitions from misinformation and obfuscation to outright lies and fabrication.

Why Are Spanish Companies Beating a Retreat from Latin America?

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

“We Will No Longer Sell Crude Abroad”: Mexican President AMLO

This is good news for Mexico’s long-beleaguered state-owned oil company, Pemex, but not such good news for the US’ refinery industry.

Why Is the Gates Foundation Funding the UK’s Medicines Regulator?

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

Spain’s Supreme Court Rules Against Using Vaccine Passports to Restrict Access to Public Spaces

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

Going, Going, Almost Gone: UK Government Speeds Up Privatisation of National Health System

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.

The US Is Losing Power and Influence Even In Its Own Back Yard

Politically, economically and geopolitically, the sands are shifting in Latin America — and not in Washington’s favor!

Quelle Surprise: Covid Cases Surge in Europe’s Tourism Hot Spots, Just One Month After Grand Reopening

It turns out that a massive increase in cross-border travel — particularly by air — is a great way of spreading an airborne virus.

Remittances to Latin America Surge, Even As Virus Crisis Continues to Bite in Host Economies

One of the rare economic success stories of the past year. But there are also downsides and dark sides to the remittances story.

Vaccine Certificates Are Making Global Travel Harder, Not Easier

Vaccine certificates were ostensibly rolled out to help facilitate cross-border travel as vaccination numbers increased. But thanks to vaccine geopolitics, the opposite is happening

Does the Fate of Ivermectin As a Covid-19 Treatment Rest in the Hands of the Deeply Conflicted Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?

One of the world’s biggest vaccine proponents and strident defender of intellectual property rights is funding, directly and indirectly, large trials into cheap, off-patent, off-label COVID-19 treatments, including ivermectin.

A Worrying Trend Emerges in South America, As Right-Wing Populists Take A Leaf Out of Trump and Netanyahu’s Playbook

If the elected leaders of long-established democracies like the US and Israel can question the workings of their electoral system, why can’t others of less-established ones?

Tourism Begins to Recover in Europe, But Is It Just a Dead Cat Bounce?

Warning signs are already flashing that Europe’s reopening to the outside world may be short lived.