Spotlight on Montenegro
Can the double-edged sword of this tiny country be finally sheathed by a merger into the European Union?
IT isn’t entirely certain that Milo Djukanovic,...
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: Deciphering the Teenage Brain
The variously self-obsessed, self-conscious, risk-taking, rebellious, moody, and unpredictable behaviour of teenagers has been a source of bemusement, incomprehension, and downright despair for grown-ups...
Quirky TikTok trends ‘can help to drive business’
WHAT happens when TikTok trends and British small businesses collide? That’s what Funding Circle, the UK’s largest small-business platform, wanted to know.
The firm paired...
UK firms jumping into LOOP to cut construction waste
UK COMPANIES are signing the Pallet LOOP’s charter to explore how a circular-economy pallet scheme could benefit business, the environment, and the construction industry.
Every...
SME: Engineering Perfection
Perfection is often the outcome of fortuitous circumstance – not necessarily of a carefully traced design process. That’s how a West Sussex precision engineering...
North America: US Elections – Truth? How Stupid Is That?
One contrast between the UK and the US versions of the television show The Apprentice is that the British programme takes place in a...
Grant Thornton UAE: Islamic Finance Oil Prices Impact
Modern banks started offering Islamic finance in the mid-1970s. At the time, there were major developments in the Muslim world such as the oil...
Africa: Tech Giants in the Making
Emboldened by the success of its home-grown M-PESA mobile payment framework, Kenya is now set to become Africa’s tech giant with even Google taking...
Daniel Ek: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Geek
When Swedish entrepreneur and digital hotshot Daniel Ek was 14, he was building web pages for friends using self-taught programming knowhow. And if everything...





































