One of my pleasures in life these days is not travelling nearly as much as I used to. The only way in which this blog
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Zack Polanski has emphatically won the Green Party leadership with over 20,000 votes, compared to fewer than 4,000 for his rivals. As readers here will
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The UK doesn’t just have one economy: it has three. They are the real economy, the sustainable economy, and the monetary economy. However, the government
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In an important report on recent trends in famines published in the Financial Times last night, the following was noted: For decades, the number of people
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Maybe because I have been thinking about nuance and black and white thinking, I have been taking pictures in black and white. I have been
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This is from the FT this morning: Almost three-quarters of HSBC’s Hong Kong commercial property loan book was flashing warning signs by the end of
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Donald Trump has slapped a 39% tariff on Toblerone from Switzerland – but this isn’t really about chocolate. It’s about a dangerous trade war targeting
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Donald Trump has claimed that wind power is the most expensive energy in the world. I was going to fact-check that, but then The Guardian
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Will AI take your job — or make it better? In this video short video published this afternoon, I compare AI in 2025 to the
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