This article was written by Fred Piechoczek. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Lord Copper has introduced a number of ideas on...

This article was written by Bill Prast. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Coming back from a recent short visit to eastern...

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” So begins LP Hartley’s novel of wistfulness, love, deception and...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. If you haven’t seen The Lehman...

I’ve just spent a few days visiting the Somme battlefield, in northern France, which I last did about fifteen years ago. For the metal...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. I suppose you know you are getting...

Hot on the heels of the local elections of which some of us in the UK have been privileged to experience the excitement, comes the next...

I know I’ve written here before about Constantine Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians”, but another thought about how apt it is in...

When I was a child, things powered by batteries always had one big failing – the batteries went flat, and, on the whole, the house never...

There may be rival claims from Shanghai or New York, but the reality is that the LME is still the most influential metal exchange around....

I have a few very good friends who watch the nickel (and cobalt, to an extent) market like hawks. They are convinced that the spread of...

Things aren’t always what they seem, and the mining and metals business offers lots of scope for dubious – and even nefarious –...

I’m getting seriously concerned by the intellectual capacity of those who would be our leaders. I’m thinking particularly of the UK, but...

Last week I wrote about some phrases that chill the soul; this week, I thought, on a lighter note, I’d mention some that should – but...

I’m sorry to be writing another political piece so soon after the last one, but there are some phrases that send a shiver of horror down...

I have always loved ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Of all children’s stories, its anarchic, upside-down, crazy, unimaginable world for some...

When, last week, I wrote that the biggest challenge in the wider adoption of electric vehicles was the extension of the charging network,...

Pretty much any kind of governmental initiative designed to encourage a particular behaviour is likely to breed attempts to misuse it for...

This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. I would like to offer belated New Year...

We stopped dead. The nose of the cab was butting up against the front of the police four-by-four. The two officers who stepped out, one...