By Brian Buck | 08/09/2013
Whistle for it!
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport has, for the past month, played host to a pawn in the international diplomacy game, one Edward…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 08/01/2013
Tragedy
Do the Middle East negotiators have the skills to succeed? As talks begin in Washington between Israeli and Palestinian representatives…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 07/25/2013
Do negotiators have a personality?
‘Of course!’ I hear you say, ‘lover of Mozart, GSOH, NS and follower of Yorkshire County cricket!’ That’s not what…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 07/18/2013
Careless talk costs margins
While I love the sight of a Chinese lantern drifting off aimlessly into a moonlit night on a lovely summers…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 07/11/2013
Unite-d we potentially fall
As early as May this year, Lord Mandelson, the former business secretary and UK cabinet minister, warned that “a cabal…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 07/09/2013
North goes east, then quickly west
George North is a big man. Currently on tour in Australia with the British and Irish Lions, North stands at…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 06/27/2013
For a few dollars more
In a sign of unabated consumer demand at the luxury end of the market $29 million was paid yesterday at…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 06/21/2013
Britvic/Barr destined to go flat?
Britvic PLC is a big company. Last year, it sold 1.9 bil gallons of soft drinks and it employs approximately…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 06/13/2013
Sometimes you can’t PARK negotiations
Taking a position in a conflict makes its resolution more difficult. And the more witnesses there are to that position-taking…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 06/06/2013
Golden Nightmare
After being the center of attention for several months late last year, Greece has been mostly out of the international…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 05/30/2013
No means no!
I have been struck last week by the resolute nature by which an elderly lady in Wales has stood firm in…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 05/23/2013
Why can we be persuaded to do stupid things?
There is no doubt that people are strange. You and especially me! A number of studies into social psychology in…
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