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Ministers have been guilty of pursuing popularity, rather than telling it like it is → Read More
It is indicative of just how quickly the world has changed that little more than three months ago when the Bank of England gave its last quarterly update, there was only a passing reference to the outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus, then still just a niggling worry on the distant horizon. → Read More
Bill Gates, former boss of Microsoft, has long been my favourite tech billionaire. → Read More
Christine Lagarde has undone all the efforts of her ECB predecessor in rebuilding trust in the single currency → Read More
Crisis could force Rome out of the euro, or more likely result in it agreeing terms for banking accord → Read More
Interest rate cuts won't help the UK economy – and place banks in an invidious position → Read More
After months of teetering on the brink, it was the coronavirus that finally pushed Flybe over the edge, simultaneously releasing the Government from questionable pledges to rescue the failing regional airline. → Read More
Cue the sound of trumpets and galloping hooves. → Read More
By coincidence, I happened to be reading John Kelly’s The Great Mortality: → Read More
Institutional erosion and coming to terms with rapid change are the more nuanced causes of falling life expectancy → Read More
Much posturing; little in the way of meaningful, thought through, action. That broadly summarises the Government’s approach thus far to climate change. By the sound of it, Claire O’Neill - sacked last week from her role organising the planned UN Climate summit in Glasgow this Autumn - thoroughly deserved her fate. The whole event is fast descending into farce, with costs spiralling out of… → Read More
With one bound, we are free. → Read More
Congratulations to Boris Johnson for a gutsy, pragmatic and essentially correct decision on Huawei. → Read More
Blunt US president trusts technology to fix the issue of climate change, but tax may have a role to play too → Read More
Capital gains tax reform to drive greater investment in smaller companies is unlikely to be a top consideration for the transformative Budget the Chancellor, Sajid Javid, would like to present in March. → Read More
We are still very much in the early honeymoon period of the new Government, when flush with a stunning election victory all things seem possible. → Read More
There were 28 mentions of infrastructure in the Conservative Party election manifesto. → Read More
As is his wont, Boris Johnson has started the New Year in bullish, cheerleading mode. → Read More
Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the publicly listed, joint stock company, one of the great cornerstones of Western capitalist success? → Read More
Johnson has been gifted an amazing opportunity to make the economy work for everyone – he must not blow it → Read More