OPINION

Eurosceptic politician Daniel Hannan offers some thoughts which would, in 'normal circumstances', be uncontroversial.

Rail fares are going up because the government is trying to shift the burden of subsidy from the state onto the passenger.

Legal practitioner and IBTimes UK columnist Martin Kenney writes 2017 has been another mega year for financial scandals.

Steve Polsky is CEO of Juvo examines the unfulfilled promise of mobile financial services.

James Slaney, co-founder, Dubber, looks at how innovative cloud call recording and speech recognition can deliver efficiencies and improve the quality of care in the NHS.

In their quest for a killer moment, business leaders often overlook simple opportunities to leverage digital technologies.

It's worth mapping key trends that are challenging traditional methods of recruitment.

Trump's enthusiastic endorsement of Britain First's tweets just shows how there is a melting pot of race hate that spreads cultures.

Chris Combemale, CEO of the DMA Group, says Brands who see GDPR merely as a legal obligation risk missing the opportunity to improve their relationship with customers.

Tim Butler, founder of Innovation Visual, is an expert on SEO, PPC and online content creation.

Joel John, lead researcher for Blockchain-focused VC firm Outlier Ventures, looks at the history of blockchain's promise of financial inclusion.

Nigel Edwards, head of UK at EXL Service, says the spectre of fraud could be emboldened by the open banking rules.

Rather than robots, the most common applications for business will use machine or deep learning to automatically analyse big data - and will be available to all.

Joséphine de Chazournes, Senior Analyst at Celent and Arno Castanet, Solution Marketing Manager at Finastra explore how capital markets must evolve

Blue collar and white collar professionals are being increasingly replaced by robots as technology becomes more and more sophisticated.

The marriage of Prince Harry to mixed race Meghan Markle will get bigots foaming at the mouth.

Ireland's position is that the UK should stay in the customs union, but this is plainly not going to happen.

Striking the right balance between convenience and security isn't just about replacing older payment methods with new technologies.

Christian Ball, Head of Retail Financial Services, GFT, looks AI, PSD2 and Banking as a Platform (BaaP).

By Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington, Maria Romero, and April Koury, from Fast Future Publishing

Rohingya Muslims are being raped, dispossessed, killed in Myanmar. One cannot hear their stories without red rage.

Ratko Mladić, the Serb commander who presided over the murder of more than 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica in Bosnia, will die in jail.

Policymakers must stop pretending they can fix broken markets with more and more regulation.

Professor Anasse Bari of New York University, formerly with the World Bank Group, is a prominent figure in the realm of predictive analytics.

Dean Withey is CEO of ubisend.

Frans Labuschagne is UK & Ireland country manager at Entersekt.

Despite being called out for 'relentless embezzlement and extortion', Equatorial Guinea's vice president walked away from a French court with a suspended jail sentence.

Stephanie Alys, co-founder of sex toy firm MysteryVibe, thinks sex education in UK schools must include a frank discussion about sex toys.

Growing number of organisations are realising that they can design their buildings as incubators of creativity and stimulation.