Effectively tackling the challenge of money laundering will require countries to co-ordinate their laws so they can force the owners of shell companies involved out into the light, says the U.K.’s point person on anti-corruption. In an interview with the West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, John Penrose, who is the U.K. Minister of State…
The 2019 Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit in Ottawa—the first ever held in Canada—officially wrapped up today (Thursday, 30th May). Over its three days, more than 2,000 government officials, civil society members and citizens from more than 100 countries gathered as the OGP met in 100 separate sessions addressing…
There’s just the faintest whiff of new thinking in our railways. A breath of cool air on a passenger’s cheek that might, just possibly, herald a wind of change. And it’s coming, improbably, from the next-door sector of airlines. The Rail Delivery Group, a big-shot industry trade association, has just…