Mike Ashley is best known for selling cheap tracksuits in the UK Now, he is thinking more like a bling king. The billionaire behind Sports Direct, who bought out the fancy but failing department store chain House of Fraser in 2018, is elevating a scion to a senior role, just as it’s been done at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton ...

There is an incontrovertible and sobering fact about the drive to net zero. Any effort that doesn’t work for the whole world will fail everywhere. A path that favours developed markets at the expense of others will lead to a partial net zero, which is no net zero at all. Unfortunately, too many countries, companies and investors see achieving this ...

Imagine a future in which foreign dissidents traveling to Washington are sued by their governments in US courts for defamation. A federal court may be on the verge of making this nightmare a reality. Last month a group of US government commissions and human-rights organisations, including the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and Freedom House, filed amicus briefs urging the ...