Apr 29, 2022
Giving your second-hand clothes to a charity shop or recycling centre is surely a good thing, isn’t it?
Well some of those items, which eventually end up abroad, are causing an environmental disaster in West Africa.
Slums and beaches are overflowing with clothes from countries such as the UK that can’t be sold.
Apr 27, 2022
As the war in Ukraine enters its third month and Russia begins the new phase of its invasion, where does this all end? Or moreover, where is it heading?
Russia says it's focusing on the east and south, but why the missile strikes in Odessa?
And what does Russia want now and what can it even get, given that the...
Apr 25, 2022
Inflation is at a 30-year high right now, and it could go even higher.
Prices were going up even before the war in Ukraine and so now the forecasts are even worse, not helped by parts of China shutting down as a new wave of Covid there takes over.
It’s all pretty gloomy, and the International Monetary Fund says the...
Apr 22, 2022
Thailand has gone Crypto crazy. Just last year investing in Crypto currencies increased four-fold in the country.
Ordinary people are jumping on the Crypto bandwagon to try and make money fast. But the world of traditional finance is wary of this new technology as some really do risk it all and lose it all.
Jonathan...
Apr 20, 2022
A close, contested election. Weeks of uncertainty. An election that some felt wasn’t legitimate. A Supreme Court divided and politicised. A new president that some felt wasn’t the true winner.
Not 2020 and beyond, but 2000 in America.
Andrew Rice, the author of “The Year That Broke America”, unpicks 12...