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The Second Death of the High Street

If you’ve walked down a British high street, particularly one in a smaller town, then you will have noticed a change. Certain shops are gone forever, many are boarded up or replaced with charity shops, vape liquid retailers and the like. If an independent coffee shop or craft goods shop opens anywhere but the wealthiest areas, they have their wor

19 August 2025

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Innovation Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Progress

In 2013, Google launched an ambitious and attention-grabbing experiment: Google Glass. Marketed as a glimpse into the future, it promised a seamless blend of digital and physical reality through an augmented-reality headset. Journalists were enthusiastically promoting it as early as 2012, and by the time its soft launch came around industry obser...

02 July 2025

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Modern Warfare: What is Payments’ Role in Conflict?

One month after the start of the Russian war against the Ukraine in 2022, the Ukrainian government took an unusual decision for a country at war with one of the world’s most powerful militaries – they legalised the cryptocurrency industry. While in other parts of the world crypto is associated with anything from utopian visions of a post-banking

08 May 2025

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