Author Archives: Nick Corbishley

As the world’s largest soft drinks manufacturer faces a consumer boycott in one of its largest global markets, its marketers come up with a cunning plan. But will it work?

The goal, says Singapore’s president, is to develop “a reliable (sic) carbon credit system with a stapling on of water and biodiversity credits.”

One of the few things that the Trump 2.0 administration and Keir Starmer government have in common is the amount of influence Ellison seems to wield over them.

Few countries are more acutely aware of the dangers posed by a resurgence in US military adventurism than Mexico.

If Milei is willing to rob not only his own citizens but his own fanbase in the broadest of possible daylight, what else is he capable of?

Over the past year Milei’s government has managed to slash inflation as well as post Argentina’s largest ever annual trade surplus. But can it turn round the industrial downturn it itself unleashed? 

“There is a legal and judicial offensive under way in Washington to accuse the former president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of having made pacts with drug traffickers.”

Big things are happening in US-Venezuela relations. But can they last?

“[W]e have this house of cards where you’ve got an awful lot of institutions working co-operatively with each other, but if one messes up the system, then the whole system fails.”

The Zelensky government’s “state in a smartphone” model of digital identity and governance, once a source of pride and inspiration for other countries, has become a source of derision. 

What’s in a simple name change? It seems like potentially quite a lot.

“In our countries, no one can walk the streets with a mask on their face,” and “yet we allow people to roam freely on the Internet without linking their profiles to a real identity.” 

The German embassy also joined the pile-on, with slapstick consequences.

The question is: where is the gold?

After two-thirds of Swiss voters rejected the government’s proposed e-ID system in 2021, a slightly revamped “Digital Passport Act (E-ID Act)” is back on the political agenda