Alex Singleton

It is Fairtrade Fortnight, and we are all being encouraged to pay extra for everything from coffee to bananas. Coffee, a totemic product for the development community, is a product where many producers have suffered from lowering prices. Massive overproduction, caused largely by mechanisation in Brazil and the rise of Vietnam as a major producer, […]

Conservative leader David Cameron used a speech at the Foreign Press Association yesterday to criticise Peter Mandelson’s record as trade commissioner:
I don’t believe that Peter Mandelson (the EU trade commissioner) is currently taking the right approach towards globalisation. There’s a stop-the-world-I-want-to-get-off mentality in too much of what he does. The role for the British government […]