In this, the third and final article of this series, Martin Hayes looks at the grinding legal processes following the collapse of the ITC...

This article was written by Mei Xin Wang. All views and opinions are strictly her own. China’s economic growth has been powering ahead...

I can remember as a schoolboy in 1968 watching TV footage of the merry month of May in Paris, when first students, then intellectuals and...

This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. As one or two recent pieces in this...

This is the second part of Martin Hayes’ story of the Tin Crisis seen through the eyes of a journalist reporting the story. Part Three...

I’ve just finished reading a book of compelling interest – “Travellers in the Third Reich”, by Julia Boyd. I understand that not everyone...

This article was written by Steven Spencer. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. At a time when trade wars threaten and...

This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. I just typed that title and immediately wondered:...

Tin Crisis – Part One This article was written by Martin Hayes. In it, he looks with the eyes of a news correspondent at the events...

This article was written by John Wolff. All views and opinions are strictly his own. I find the interminable Brexit negotiations keep...

Chapter V The deal worked without a hitch. Trucks rolled in to car plants, consumer goods factories, extrusion works and the rest, all...

Chapter IV A day later, the deal was agreed. Metal-Exx had agreed to take a quantity of aluminium metal from Arctic Mining in the US – it...

Chapter III Obviously, however important Puschkin may have thought himself, Serck couldn’t simply accept the Russian’s schedule....

Chapter II Across the other side of the Atlantic, in the Geneva headquarters of Metal-Exx, Max Eisenstadt was metaphorically scratching...

Chapter I Jason Serck stared at the face looking back at him from the bathroom mirror. There was no running away from it; he was getting...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Where can I find a UK Steinweg? As it now...

Back in July 2012, in the pages of ‘Metal Bulletin’, I wrote an article entitled ‘Libor Lies’; it was written as the scandal of Libor...

This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. The LME Dinner will be with us again soon, and...

By and large, modern political thought doesn’t speak well of the Victorians; not entirely fairly, I feel. I’m not going to stick my head...

Before the outbreak of World War One, the UK was largely dependent for zinc on smelters in Germany and, to a lesser degree, the Low...