Published by The Times (23rd June, 2017) Hallelujah! It has taken nine years. But at last some British bankers face criminal charges over the 2008 financial meltdown that […]
Arts / Books / Economics
It makes the world go round
Published in The Observer (June 9th, 2013) Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin (Bodley Head) When an American explorer named William Henry Furness III arrived on the […]
Economics
More capitalism, not less, will tame the corporate titans
Published in The Independent (February 20th, 2013) The headlines were dominated yesterday by an alleged murder in South Africa, a huge diamond heist in Belgium and the Prime […]
Health / Police / Policy / Politics / Technology
Why does no-one ever take the blame any more?
Published in The Daily Mail (February 13th, 2013) When Nick Clegg dropped into Hampshire to boost his party’s campaign in the crucial Eastleigh by-election, he spoke passionately about […]
Economics / Politics
Politicians are the last people who should investigate corrupt City spivs
Published in The Daily Mail (July 4th, 2012) So farewell then, Bob Diamond. Few will mourn the departure from British public life of this arrogant and over-paid American, […]
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 […]