The house mafia: the scandal of new builds
New-build developers are acting like a cartel
British broadcast news has gone badly wrong
I’ve worked for some media thoroughbreds — including the Financial Times, ITN and CNN — so I know the sense…
Quantitative easing is a dangerous addiction
Britain’s dependence on quantitative easing is alarming
The coronavirus is China’s biggest test since Tiananmen Square
Over 1,500 Chinese have died from the coronavirus, with tens of millions quarantined in their own homes. President Xi is…
Can Leo Varadkar defy the odds to win another term as Taoiseach?
Back in October, Boris Johnson and the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met for ‘last-ditch’ Brexit talks at a hotel on the…
Nightmare on Downing Street: what could happen on Friday 13th?
Radicalism does not usually work out well for the Labour party. Michael Foot fought the 1983 general election on a…
The Brexit deal gives Northern Ireland an extraordinary opportunity
Ulster says No. So went the Unionist slogan against the Anglo-Irish Agreement which paved the way to ending the Troubles…
Germany’s ailing economy can’t afford a no-deal Brexit
The UK was the ‘sick man’ when we ‘joined Europe’ in 1973. Now, with Britain on the cusp of leaving,…
Varadkar’s backstop gamble could cost Ireland dearly
‘The government has relished wearing the green jersey on Brexit and standing up to the British with the help of…
It’s not anti-Irish to criticise Leo Varadkar
The relationship between the UK and the Republic of Ireland has ‘reached a hunger-strike low’, says a new study by…
The financial logic behind HS2 is collapsing. It’s time to pull the plug
No one is in any doubt about the problem facing Britain’s railways. Over the past decade, rail fares have risen…
Leo Varadkar has done his absolute best to damage Brexit
How did we get into this Brexit mess? Why is it proving so difficult to leave the EU? Was it…
Ten years on: the world the crash made
With September marking a decade since the Lehman Brothers implosion, stand by for a slew of economic retrospectives. Any meaningful…
Interview: Meet Mariana Mazzucato, big-state capitalism’s new champion
‘It was Plato who said storytellers rule the world,’ observes Mariana Mazzucato, her powerful voice tempered with a beaming smile,…
This is the stock market crash we needed
Since the crash ten years ago, stock markets the world over have been steadily recovering. The Dow Jones, a bellwether…
No deal is a good deal
So Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker enjoyed a ‘broad and constructive exchange’ during their working dinner in Brussels. Last time…
The low tricks of high finance: how greedy bankers, weak politicians and timid journalists could cause a new crash
Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, rages against greedy bankers, weak politicians and timid journalists
‘The problem isn’t that we’ve been slaves to free markets’: Joseph Stiglitz interview
Joseph Stiglitz, the left’s favourite economist,on making the free market work
The subversive wonders of Kilkenomics – where economics meets stand-up
‘What is a Minsky moment, anyway?’ asks Gerry Stembridge, an Irish satirist. ‘I’ve been reading about them in the papers…
Europe will reconcile with Russia, and soon. It can’t afford not to
The West will have to drop sanctions on Russia – or face another global economic crash
The warning signs of a new credit crunch
Think we’ve done enough to avoid another financial crisis? Think again
The revolution the West needs (and won't get)
The West must wake up and reform, or face decline
Michael Lewis vs Wall Street's new predators
How the US stock market became ‘a war of robots’
Putin is making the West's Cold Warriors look like fools
Russia is making the West look posturing, weak and divided
