China fastest growing global superpower

In The Long Game, Rush Doshi, advisor on China in the Biden White House, draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, and memoirs by party leaders, to demonstrate that China is in fact playing a long, methodical game to replace America as a regional and…

Extra ordinary rise and precipitous fall of Adam Elliot Neumann

Wall Street reporters, Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell, probes into the saga of ambition by aspiring entrepreneur to hit big time and the reasons why some of the biggest names in banking and venture capital buy the hype? What does the future hold for Silicon Valley “unicorns”? “The Cult of We” explores these questions with…

Inflation rises to 4.2 per cent

UK inflation rate rises at highest in a decade at 4.2 per cent in October, amid fears over Covid recovery. Th jump, driven largely by rising fuel and energy costs, which puts further pressure on households across the UK. Demand for gas is pushing up energy prices worldwide, recovering from Covid pandemic. The shortages of…

Muksesh Ambani acquires 40 per cent stake in Manish Malhotra

Reliance Brands Ltd, part of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd, acquired 40 per cent stake in famous fashion designers Manish Malhotra’s MM Styles Pvt Ltd, a 16-year-old luxury brand. The deal is intended to boost the brand’s positioning and drive international growth. Manish Malhotra, a self-taught designer who got hi start as a stylist and…

Connection between Colonial Exploitation and Climate Change

Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. The Nutmeg’s Curse, traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. He argues that the dynamics of climate change today…

Wilbur Smith dies aged 88

Zambian born accountant turned International best-selling author, Wilbur Smith has died  on Saturday afternoon with his wife Niso, by his side, at his home in Cape Town at the age of 88. Smith’s 49 published books have sold more than 140 million copies worldwide, including the publication of his debut novel When the Lion Feeds…

Hong Kong: Freedom under Communist regime

The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule and the outlook for freedom under the communist regime are told with complete insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness reporting over three decades, interviews with key figures and documents from archives in China and the West. Sheridan’s…

Vision for New Economics

Diane Coyle, distinguished academic economist with Harvard PhD, Cambridge Chair, and professional, ex-UK Treasury, CBE, explores enormous problems but also opportunities and explains how economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy – Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionising both the tools…