Published by The Times (7th March, 2017) Seven years ago I joined the swelling ranks of self-employed workers in Britain after a quarter century in the corporate world. […]
Aid / Economics
Prosperity is about more than just money
Published by CapX (3rd November, 2016) Shortly after becoming prime minister six years ago, David Cameron reiterated his much-mocked idea of a national happiness index. ‘It’s high time […]
Economics / Europe / European Union / Politics
The full cost of Brexit is now becoming clear
Published by CapX (23rd November, 2016) Economists are not known for unity of outlook when predicting the future. But before June’s vote on Brexit, almost all agreed on […]
Arts / Books / Economics
When Big Bang blew apart the bowler hat brigade
Published by The Daily Mail (17th November, 2016) Crash Bang Wallop: The inside story of London’s Big Bang and a financial revolution that changed the world (Sceptre) Shortly […]
Aid / Economics
Politicians must stand up for the glories of globalisation
Published by CapX (27th October, 2016) The Belgian region of Wallonia was once called the crossroads of Europe. It sent arms to Spain in medieval times, then became […]
Economics / Europe / European Union / Politics / Switzerland
Now Theresa May can see the mountainous challenge ahead
Published by The Guardian (19th August, 2016) Having reached the political summit with surprising ease, Theresa May has headed to the Swiss Alps for her summer holiday. She enjoys […]
Economics / Europe / Italy
How the mafia is causing cancer
Published by Mosaic & The Daily Telegraph magazine (24th June, 2016) A few days before I visited the rather scruffy Hospital of Saint Anna and Saint Sebastian in […]
Arts / Books / Economics / Europe / European Union / Germany / Greece
To austerity and beyond by Yanis the menace
Published by The Observer (24th April, 2016) And The Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis (Bodley Head) It is easy to forget that Yanis Varoufakis spent two […]
Economics / Technology
The not-so-strange death of The Independent
Published by CapX (12th February, 2016) When The Independent launched in 1986, I was working on a weekly newspaper in the West Midlands with fuzzy ambitions to reach […]
Economics / Politics
How I learned to love the interfering state
Published by The Guardian (15th January, 2016) Political archaeology studies the influence of the past in shaping politics. It explains why New Labour hugged the Murdoch press even […]
Economics / Technology
The tax-avoiding Facebook mogul and an act of charity that reeks of hypocrisy
Published by The Daily Mail (3rd December, 2015) Once, it was enough to put a notice in the newspaper when your child was born. But Mark Zuckerberg, the […]
Economics / Immigration / Policy / Politics
Immigration rules are causing a curry crisis
Published by The Daily Telegraph (2nd December, 2015) Shortly after the turn of the century, the then foreign secretary Robin Cook gave a speech celebrating British diversity that […]