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"Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." – Plato (428 – 348 BC)
By this time next week, the divorce papers may have been...
"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley"- Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
Last week Norwegian press sources reported that the largest cyber attack in the country's history had taken place and been repelled.
(What is good for one is good for the other) Russian proverb
"Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed" - William James (1842 – 1910)
As the to and fro of hostilities in Northern Iraq rages o...
On Monday 28th July, the British government opened its first oil and gas on-shore licensing round for six years. Decline in production and revenues from North Sea reserves, coupled with recent instability in natural gas provision from...
Last week, history may have been made. In the post-soccer World Cup come down, the leaders of the BRICS nations met in the tropical coastal town of Fortaleza to sign a new supranational body into existence.
The New Devel...
"Birth was the death of him." - Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989)
"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people." - Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006)
As battle rages for Saddam Hussein’s home town, the Ba’athist stronghold of Tikrit, the world’s newest state has been declared on the banks of the Euphrates.
"The very future of Iraq depends on choices that will be made in the next days and weeks."
Iraq’s oil-rich second city, Mosul, was seized by ISIS militants a week ago today, leaving its 1.7 million inhabitants under the yoke of the self-proclaimed Emir, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
"Football – bloody hell!" Sir Alex Ferguson (1941 - )
In two days time, the largest spectacle in the global sporting calendar will kick off at the Arena Corinthians in Brazil’s most populous city, Säo Paulo....
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle (1908 – 2002)
Yesterday the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Gina McCa...
Last week, Russia and China concluded ten years of negotiation by signing a three decade-long energy deal worth $400 billion and 1.14 trillion cubic metres of natural gas.
Under the watchful eyes of Presidents Putin and...
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." - Lao Tzu (6th century BC)
According to Energy Information Administration, last week saw crude production in the Unite...
According to a recently released report by the Carbon Tracking Initiative (CTI), $1.1 trillion of oil and gas capital projects may be economically unviable.
With the price of developing unconventional hydrocarbons at m...
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." – Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Explore how the competition for Arctic oil and gas resources is reshaping geopolitical dynamics between Russia and the USA, echoing Cold War tensions.
"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject." Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955)...
"Even Napoleon had his Watergate." Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (1925 - )
"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail" Will Rogers (1879– 1935)
This weekend clocks across Europe and the Middle East will spring forward by an hour as daylight saving time (DST) kicks in across the globe.
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." Confucius (551-479 BC)
