When Owen Smith came out with his policy pledges, I can’t say I was blown away. Of the twenty on offer, I think four were really…
When Owen Smith came out with his policy pledges, I can’t say I was blown away. Of the twenty on offer, I think four were really…
Text of letter published in the Financial Times on 8 August 2016. Original FT Letter here. Sir, The Bank of England has given us more of…
In this blog I consider the renewal of Trident from a risk management perspective. I used to think Trident was a disastrous idea and a…
We had all bought into the idea of a post-war world order. Countries would co-operate to devise a system of ‘global governance’ where a set…
This article is based on a number of trips I undertook in Northern Nigeria to advise the Jigawa state pension scheme over the last couple…
It is now four decades – exactly four decades – since I took my A Levels, the heady, long hot summer of 1976. The drought,…
Several years ago I was in a meeting between senior commercial and research staff in a multinational pharmaceutical company. Discussing various research projects, one commercial…
The creation of an English parliament has been written off by most of the body politic for a variety of reasons. One of these is…
“…..one other such victory would utterly undo him” – Pyrrhus David Cameron promised the now disastrous referendum in his now infamous Bloomberg speech in January…
Share Radio Morning Money – 29th June 2016 Radix, “the think tank of the radical centre”, launches with a report and an event on Quantitative…
There appears to be a new division emerging in UK cities as they take their first steps towards devolution, with Manchester’s devo agreement coming into…
This article first appeared in Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch) and the Huffington Post (English). In December I attended a session at the Dutch National Bank…