Published in The Guardian (May 15th, 2012) So this is the year Britain throws open its arms and welcomes the world to a unique double bill of sporting […]
Economics / Politics
Osborne has sent a missile into six years of Tory modernisation
Published in The Guardian (March 21st, 2012) There was much to admire when this heavily leaked budget was finally delivered: the cut in corporation tax, the lifting of […]
Economics / Politics
Forget mansions and lower the 40p tax band
Published in The Financial Times (March 6, 2012) Every successful leader of the postwar age in Britain has understood a basic truth of politics: success depends on winning […]
Economics
Big Pharma’s demise is nothing to celebrate – our health is in their hands
Published in The Independent (December 3rd, 2011) You may not have heard the screams, but this was the week the drug industry fell off a cliff. The most profitable […]
Economics
Proof banks don’t have to be run the Gordon Gekko way
Published in the London Evening Standard (April 19th, 2011) So here we go again. More sound and fury over the banks. Last week began with the controversial results […]
Arts / Economics / Music
British music can still star as rock finds a new role
Published in the London Evening Standard (February 15th, 2011) Let’s get the party started. Tonight it is the Brits, that annual orgy of champagne and back-slapping that has […]
Arts / Economics / Music
Record sales plummet but the music plays on
Published in The Times (October 22nd, 2010) The deeply wonderful Elvis Costello has a new record out. It is available as a download, on CD, on vinyl and […]
Economics
The economist who got it right
Published in The Independent (January 6th, 2010) As we stand on the cusp of this new decade, shivering in the snow and contemplating a general election in a […]
Economics
The unlikely triumph of capitalism
Published in The Independent (April 4th, 2009) Presidents, politicians, pundits and protesters are united: Capitalism is in crisis; free markets are fatally wounded; the state is in the […]