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A central Uzbek challenge is to turn international interest in the country’s natural resources into lasting industrial development.

By Lord Waverley | [email protected]

By Lord JD Waverley

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Central Asia exports more than $15 billion of critical minerals a year, and every tonne must cro...

Western Europe has experienced its hottest June on record. A rapid attribution study concluded that comparable temperatures would have been virtually impossible in the climate of fifty years ago. The scientific foundations of human-caused warming are firmly established; the more difficult argument now concerns money, timing, responsibilit...

For four decades, North Sea oil and gas contributed heavily to Treasury receipts, supported Britain’s external accounts and influenced the politics of successive governments. Those revenues have not disappeared, but they are projected to fall to a fraction of their former scale. The explanation combines geology, commodity prices, investme...

John Maynard Keynes described the gold standard—not gold itself—as a “barbarous relic”. Yet the metal has returned to the centre of global finance. After the LBMA gold benchmark reached a record $5,501.70 an ounce on 29 January 2026 before retreating sharply, an old question has acquired new relevance: what function can gold serve in a mo...