UK security outside the EU

In our age of insecurity, and threat, it is easy to make the assumption that security interests trump all. But is it so simple? The status of the UK’s relationship to Europol and to other European police and intelligence agencies remains uncertain as the date for departure from the European …

Dover 58

The streets of the UK are paved in gold. Its fields are paved with rich pickings. These illusory images of life in Britain are sold to the citizens of some of China’s more remote parts in an effort to persuade them to part with unimaginably large sums of money. Some …

Britain’s cocklers – How low-cost labourers paid the ultimate price

The subcontracted worker is as much a stakeholder of a corporation as its consumer or its shareholder. The integrity and background of a company’s workers need as much scrutiny as the goods they make. Companies in the food area use many low-paid workers and they are under particular pressure to …

No victim too vulnerable: the global market in trafficked people

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. Human trafficking is, by definition, the use of violence, threats, coercion or fraud to aid in the recruitment, transportation or harbouring of a person, with the intent of exploiting that person. Human trafficking is a growing global problem and is increasing at …

Banks, money laundering and terrorism

Money laundering practice is in confusion as banks struggle to understand terrorist financing and government fails to support the financial community with resources skills and systems. That is the conclusion of two years of frantic activity and expenditure by the world’s banking system, post September 11. The implications for global …

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