Financial crisis
One damned thing after another: Britain’s crisis-ridden century so far
The Iraq war, the financial crisis, Brexit and Covid have seen many prime ministers blown off course. Will Keir Starmer be any luckier than his predecessors?
Come back Robert Peston, 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,…
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
Tony Blair: What I got right – and Labour now is getting wrong
And what the Labour party is now getting wrong
Financial crises are nothing new in Greece — they go back at least to the Peloponnesian War
Financial crises are nothing new in Greece. Back in 354 BC, at a time when Frankfurt was still a swamp,…
Why Yanis Varoufakis is my politician of the year
After the heat of battle: the accolades, the recriminations, the telling of history by the victors. It’s six months early…
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…
The warning signs of a new credit crunch
Think we’ve done enough to avoid another financial crisis? Think again
Less subsidy means better music
One of the unlooked-for side effects of the financial crisis has been what might be called the desocialising of music…
Where I’m looking for the next great banking blow-up
A reader likens me to Dr Pangloss, the quack philosopher in Voltaire’s Candide who insisted that ‘all is for the…
Ireland's back, and luck had nothing to do with it
My man in Dublin calls with joy in his voice to tell me ‘the Troika’ — the combined powers of…
