The office: will we miss it when it’s gone?
15 mins. to read
Victor Hill takes a look at who will be the winners and losers in the shift towards working from home.
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2020 – The year America dumped Trump?
10 mins. to read
Back in January President Trump looked assured to win the US presidential election come November. But the coronavirus pandemic has changed everything.
Plague Year Journal VI: The pathology of uncertainty
12 mins. to read
We continue to learn more about the malign virus behind Covid-19. But the tension between the need to open up the economy and to avoid a second wave is acute.
The economic consequences of the pandemic
12 mins. to read
Now that the lockdowns are being relaxed in most advanced countries it is time to take stock of the damage. The markets take one view; Victor Hill takes another.
The UK-EU Trade Talks – Why the pandemic has changed everything
12 mins. to read
The pandemic has changed the dynamic of the UK-EU trade negotiations irremediably. A no-deal outcome is not only probable but could even be preferable now, writes Victor Hill.
Big tech post-pandemic: the virus killers
17 mins. to read
Victor Hill takes a look at how ‘big tech’ will be omnipresent, post-pandemic, in the fight to contain and suppress Covid-19 and future pathogens.
Plague Year Journal V: Science & Sensibility
12 mins. to read
The Covid-19 pandemic will be the best documented and most analysed in history. But the long-term impact will be in terms of changes in behaviour, writes Victor Hill.
Plague Year IV: Why the British numbers are so bad
12 mins. to read
Even Tory loyalists admit that the UK mortality figures are dire and the economic consequences of lockdown are grave – but Victor Hill refuses to blame Boris Johnson.
Journal of the Plague Year III – Of models and black boxes
12 mins. to read
The Imperial College pandemic model was never peer-reviewed – until now. There are parallels between epidemiological models and catastrophic hedge fund “black box” investment strategies. Victor Hill has been scribbling in his Plague Year journal again.
A Journal of the Plague Year – Part the Second – The Shadow of Big Brother
12 mins. to read
Test, track and trace – this is the new formula to contain this and future pandemics. Victor Hill makes another entry in his plague journal.