Crypto is dead
When Britain voted for Brexit, Macron boasted that Paris would eat the City of London’s lunch. It didn’t quite work…
Bill Gates vs Elon Musk? I know who my money is on
Is Bill Gates shorting Tesla? He certainly didn’t deny it in an interview with the Today programme. The suggestion is…
Why Meghan Markle’s Netflix show was cancelled
In their post-royal careers, Harry and Meghan have learned two lessons in quick succession: firstly, that membership of the royal…
The electric scooter ban doesn’t make sense
Is there anything we use in everyday life which was not, at some point on its journey to acceptance, denounced…
Why Brussels fears Elon Musk
Thierry Breton, the European Commission for the internal market, lost no time in rattling his sabre at Twitter as soon…
Boris is choosing to make you poorer
If Boris Johnson is forced from office by his own MPs, partygate will only be part of the story. Another…
Do we really need a GCSE focused on saving the planet?
We have yet to see the first sample papers for the new GCSE in natural history to be announced by…
Boris’s real failure wasn’t breaking lockdown
Boris Johnson made a big error, alright. But it wasn’t walking into a room where his wife had prepared him…
Could we be heading for a second Covid recession?
The political story for the moment is the cost of living crisis. But by the end of the year could…
Will Britain’s new energy strategy keep the lights on?
Today’s Energy Security Strategy puts energy security at the heart of the debate over energy and environmental policy, where it…
Ed Sheeran is right about British courts
As they say in the music business, where there’s a hit, there’s a writ. It is something that no one…
The war on workers
It is been a familiar story in recent years: a Budget that sounded reasonably good when delivered, but that unravels…
Are sanctions working?
When allied military operations go well or badly, we very quickly hear about them. But what about sanctions? It is…
Zelensky has saved Boris
Labour will try all it can to bring up the subject at every opportunity; as will a few backbench MPs.…
The rouble's astonishing recovery
The tank columns are stalled; one or two towns captured from the Ukrainians have been retaken. Russia’s war effort has…
Was Biden's chemical weapons threat a gaffe?
Did Joe Biden mean to threaten Russia with a chemical weapons attack? That seemed to be what he implied at…
Can we trust economic models?
Rishi Sunak shared a delightful moment of honesty on the Today programme on Thursday. Mishal Husain asked him how households…
Welcome to the new era of high inflation
There was a time when a chancellor would have bitten off the hand of a national statistician who offered him…
Should we prepare for an oil price crash?
I almost felt a sense of perverse celebration as the meter clocked round to £100 – the first time I…
Will the Russian Stock Exchange ever reopen?
It is one thing for western companies, funds, investment trusts and others to promise to divest from Russian assets. But…
The problem with the UK's Russian clamp down
I’m no apologist for oligarchs, whether they be from Russia or anywhere else. I have been writing for years about…
Will the West boycott Russian oil?
The price of Brent crude exceeded $112 a barrel this morning. There is, as yet, no interruption in supply from…
Will the West shut Russia out of Swift?
You may never have heard of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications — or at least not by its…
The Ukraine invasion is good news for Wall Street
Don’t be fooled by the pictures that will shortly start to emerge of traders apparently tearing their hair out against…
It's too late to break Europe's gas reliance on Russia
So, Nord Stream 2 will not be plugged into Germany’s gas grid. A little surprisingly, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been…
