Last night’s near full moon, seen this morning, bathed in the reflection of the sun, which had only just risen:
Going short
As I mentioned in a video earlier this week, one of our plans for this year is to expand our output on short-form video platforms.
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AI on the scale now envisaged will create a recession on a scale hard to imagine
Project Syndicate published an article by Simon Johnson and Piero Novelli about a month ago in which they discussed AI. This is a recurring theme of mine
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Trump: the greatest threat in 2026
2026 opens in a world more fragile than at any point since 1945. This video explains why — and why the risk is not personality,
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Will the Bank of England base rate tumble in 2026?
This comes from The Telegraph this morning: The Bank of England will slash interest rates to their lowest level in more than three years as
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Will AI create a new digital divide and drag the economy down?
The FT noted this yesterday: Consumers should prepare for price increases this year, of as much as 20 per cent for smartphones, computers and home
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Older consumers are rejecting the market
As we move into 2026, a striking contradiction is becoming impossible to ignore. People over 55 now account for around half of global consumer spending,
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Campaigners against poverty must get their economics right
As The Guardian noted last night: The richest 500 individuals in the world added a record $2.2tn to their wealth in 2025, according to the Bloomberg
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Can you hear the music?
I watched Oppenheimer last night, not for the first time. And not for the first time, this exchange stood out: Niels Bohr: Algebra’s like sheet
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