Mr Osborne’s Conjuring Trick
Back in July I wrote a piece on Mr Osborne’s budget (Mr Osborne’s Brave New World) in which I praised…
9 years ago
Victor Hill
War on Terror II: End of Days
Wednesday’s headline in The Sun was a classic: SHOT DOWN…AND WORLD HOLDS BREATH. I love The Sun. For its honesty,…
9 years ago
War on Terror II
Since the Paris terror attacks of 13 November it is as if we have awoken from an all too peaceful…
9 years ago
Europe Under Siege
The appalling attacks in Paris in the late evening of Friday, 13 November 2015 will linger in the annals of…
9 years ago
Cheap Money’s Toxic Legacy
The September edition of the Master Investor magazine was largely dedicated to an examination of how likely interest rates were…
9 years ago
Outsourcing Means Fewer Jobs in Manufacturing
Barely a week goes by in the USA, the UK and elsewhere, without news of job layoffs in the manufacturing…
9 years ago
Post Card from Cyprus
When Swen asked me to get down to Cyprus to cover the olive harvest I thought this would be a…
9 years ago
The Secret History of the Euro’s Birth
A few days ago I tried to sketch out how the upcoming UK-EU In-Out Referendum actually boils down to an…
9 years ago
Mr Putin Requests the Pleasure…
It is 07 October 2017 – an auspicious day in Russia. We meet at the Presidential dacha somewhere deep in…
9 years ago
Mr Cameron’s Gamble
On 29 October we learnt from the BBC, that the Prime Ministers of both Finland and Estonia (snowy Baltic neighbours)…
9 years ago