By Brian Boyd Overview Update The first half of 2025 saw billions of words recorded by the monopoly media concerning the styles and foibles of various political leaders of the major powers such as Trump, Putin, Xi, Macron and Starmer. The endless optics, emphasising their spin and ramblings, are given shallow analysis of what is the real basis of growing …

By Brian Boyd This is the second of a two part-series Rival trading blocs emerging Privately most major nation states are acknowledging that global trade is becoming dysfunctional. At the macro level that WTO has become powerless to prevent or even slow down the fracturing of the long-running, international ‘rules-based order’. On a regular basis China and the US exchange …