Robert Peston
Sinister accidents abound
The old adage that everyone has a novel in them has a new version: anyone can write a thriller. Celebrity…
We can’t see the wood for the trees
I was relieved to discover, earlier this week, that the Prime Minister’s special adviser, Dominic Cummings, was a symbol of…
Inside the relationship between politicians and the media
Global system breakdown has defined all our lives for 13 years. From the banking system’s boom and bust to the…
We will find out in a few days whether Brexit will happen
There is probably now just a week or so from the end of the Tory conference for Boris Johnson to…
Diary
For years, I’ve wondered why so many clever people go to Davos to discuss topics as meaningless as ‘the new…
Come back Pesto, all is forgiven: and tell us who’s to blame this time
‘Who’s to blame for financial crisis’ is a poem I wrote in 2012, rhyming ‘speculators, spivs and traders’ with ‘rich,…
Long life
When Robert Peston, the economics editor of the BBC, interviewed George Osborne on television in an open-necked shirt with collar…
Sea sound
It’s often not visual images that stimulate memory but a smell, a taste, the sound of pebbles crashing on to…
Can’t afford Pesto or Boris? Or even Ant and Dec? Try the bloke from The Spectator
To Brighton, to address a conference of property investors. Unusually, I find myself programmed alongside both Gerard Lyons, City economist…
Letting us down
As I listened to Robert Peston early last Friday fluffing on about the Revd Paul Flowers and the possible effect…
A new nuclear plant is better than a stab in the dark
Prediction, as Mervyn King once observed, is ‘a stab in the dark’. Who can say with confidence where the wholesale…
