Like me you may have read many recent articles about the evolving Cold War between the US and China. Opinions vary (of course) and run along a spectrum from ‘No it isn’t’ denial to a nostalgic ‘It isn’t as existential as US-USSR Cold War 1.0’ to a political-economic ‘This is about mutually exclusive values‘ to an outright forecast of ‘The Coming War on China’ – title of a popular independent TV documentary made five years ago by a veteran UK news reporter John Pilger. The Sin

The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, is generally thought to have had a good crisis. He was quick to offer state aid to furloughed employees and to extend welfare to the newly unemployed, though the significant “gig economy” in the UK, numbering millions of self-employed people, was largely overlooked. His latest economic stimulus removes temporarily the tax people pay when they buy and sell homes. He has also offered government discounts to people eating out in

This week, the IMO is holding an informal online meeting for its members (flag states and industry associations) in which they can discuss progress towards the IMO’s decarbonisation goals. In particular they are discussing the measures that the IMO has proposed to cut shipping’s carbon emissions by 40 per cent in 2030 compared to 2008. That 40 per cent figure is in itself contentious because who was reliably and accurately measuring shipping’s carbon emissions in 2008? The fi