In the fashion industry, McShopping has gone global on August 14, 2017If Paris is a moveable feast, as Ernest Hemingway wrote, the image that has been sticking in my mind after a recent trip to the City of Light is of the long line of people I noticed practically salivating while waiting to get inside the Uniqlo outlet in the Marais district. In one of the […]
If you thought globalisation was bad, just wait for deglobalisation on November 21, 2016Just when it looked as if Donald Trump might be mellowing came the unsettling symbolism of his weekend meeting with Nigel Farage, a seasoned pro of nativist politics. The leader of Britain’s pro-Brexit forces and the U.S. president-elect, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager explained, chatted “about freedom and winning and what this all means for the […]