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The Climate Change Conference of Parties: Annual COP Out?

November 20 th  2025 marks 50 years to the day since Spain’s military dictatorship came to an end, following the death of General Francisco Franco. Franco left a complex legacy, which the murderous civil war (1936-39), an attempted military coup in 1981, and Catalonia illegally declaring independence in 2017, has never completely resolved. As part of the post-Franco constitutional settlement, three distinct cultural regions of Spain, Galicia, Catalonia and the Basque Region,

The former French President, General Charles de Gaulle, once famously said, ‘How can you govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?’ The same might be said of Dutch politics. In the recent October General Election, 27 parties contested 150 electoral seats in the House of Representatives, without conclusive result. To call Dutch politics fractured under its tortured system of proportional representation would be an under-statement. The Dutch peopl

News that Coca-Cola (KO:US) has put Costa Coffee into the starting blocks for a sale, brings to an end a rare stumble by the American beverage giant, as well as a fairly strange experiment. Costa, originally founded in 1971 as a roaster and supplier to specialist Italian coffee shops, was bought by Whitbread in 1995 during its messy conglomerate phase, when the former brewer owned everything from gyms to steak houses. Former Chief Executive, Alison Britain, successfully broke