It’s still holiday time for me, so I’ve got no more than a couple of random thoughts this week. First, in this world where sadly...

When cars with internal combustion engines began to appear around the turn of the twentieth century, one of the obvious issues for the...

Just a short article this week, as I’m on holiday, enjoying driving my German petrol/electric hybrid car down almost – by UK standards –...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. The most memorable stand at Farnborough this...

Oh dear! Poor old mother country. Over the years, we’ve got used to Australia handing out Ashes whitewashes, the Wallabies putting us out...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. It would appear that wherever I go the subject...

One of the simple bits of physics that even I – a definite non-physicist – can understand about electricity versus petrol as a means of...

I’ve been catching up recently with some books that I should probably have read already. One of those is “Red Notice”, by Bill Browder,...

This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions are strictly his own. The situation in aluminium following President...

Sanctions and tariff barriers are amongst the hot topics of the moment. It’s worth re-iterating the difference between them, because...

This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. I don’t think it’s a secret that I enjoy the...

I wonder if every generation – when it gets to a certain age – begins to feel that the world is in a terrible state? I know my father was...

The granting of credit, or the acquisition of security, can be a bit of a minefield in a business where transactions take place which may...

In Douglas Adams’ radio series (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), originally from the 1970s, there is a character called...

When we think of the bottlenecks surrounding the rate of adoption of electric vehicles, there are probably two things that first come to...

This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. In January and February I spent some time in...

A couple of things have recently caught my eye that may be harbingers of what could be a significant change in the way the metal markets...

This article was written by Bill Prast. All views and opinions are strictly his own. It has been said, and with some justification, that...

April Fool’s Day has a long history; at least, some believe so. English Literature graduates will no doubt recall the reference in...

There are possibly worse things than to be a celeb helicoptered into the Ozzie bush to eat grubs for a living. Being short of Vanadium or...