GLOBAL NEWS: Countries must co-ordinate to reveal shell company owners, fight money laundering: U.K. MP

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…

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Why railways should be more like airlines – and how passengers would gain if they were

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…

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