I posted this video on 11 May: Yesterday we learned this: Reform is finding it impossible to be coherent as a political party. The problem
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My friend and former City, University of London, colleague Prof Atul Shah attended the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales AGM this week,
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Consider a possibility for a moment. I’m not suggesting that Trump‘s Big Beautiful Bill Act is not going to reach the US statute book, but
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The idea that bond vigilantes can set government policy suits the City and neoliberal politicians, who’d like it to be true. But is it? This
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There are moments when any writer wonders whether anyone but their friends and family is taking a lot of notice. I admit that social media
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This is the chart of the MSCI All-Country World Equity Index from Investing.com: The index is a weighted measure of the change in equity shares
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According to Roy Lilley’s persistently good newsletter on mainly medical issues (and I have edited, very slightly): Yesterday’s defence review describes military medical services as:
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As the New York Times noted in a mail this morning: A new study estimates that there have been nearly 1.4 million military casualties in Russia’s three-year
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A number of stories suggest a common thread this morning. Elon Musk has walked away from Trump and the US government, having very obviously failed.
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