Rich must not be allowed to use farmland as a vehicle for investment
I have been meaning to write here about ownership of agricultural farmland for a while, but other topics came first. This week I read a striking piece in the online business magazine, TheCurrency which draws our attention to a large and growing transformation of property ownership in Ireland – investment in Irish farmland by wealthy […]
Putin has overplayed his hand – but is the West bluffing?
Olga Sukhenko, the mayor of of Motyzhyn, a satellite town of Kyiv, was found dead – dumped with her husband and son in a pit grave when the town was liberated by Ukrainian forces five days ago. She had been kidnapped by Putin’s soldiers on 23rd March. Her execution, presumably after torture and threats to […]