On March 17 2018, Xi Jinping was unanimously re-elected president for five years by the 2,970 deputies of the National People’s Congress of China. An…
On March 17 2018, Xi Jinping was unanimously re-elected president for five years by the 2,970 deputies of the National People’s Congress of China. An…
There has been a great deal of media speculation about the prospect of a new centre party in the UK. Meanwhile in many countries in…
Ten years ago, my book about the rivalry between Columbus, Cabot and Vespucci was published (Toward the Setting Sun, still available!). And for me, two…
During the past 50 years or so, growth has been part of my mindset. I thought my prospects were good when the GNP was predicted…
So the government now has a Brexit plan having had an awayday at Chequers, and Jeremy Corbyn has made a speech that gives some direction…
Whatever happened to free trade? I keep on asking this question given that the economic establishment is firmly committed to it in name, but acts…
So the cat is out of the bag. Or maybe it is. A document has been leaked about Brexit scenarios, prepared it would seem by…
My friend David Boyle recently wrote about the re-birth of liberal economics. In particular, the renewed attention on tackling monopoly power. As he mentioned, this trend has…
I used to be a member of the Lib Dem’s federal policy committee. I used to irritate Danny Alexander and other luminaries by claiming that…
I have always suspected that the Left-Right political spectrum is not a straight line, but a circle. One eventually leads to the other – and…
The US government shutdown this year has been short-lived. For now. In the UK, such a shutdown is unthinkable. A government that cannot get its…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any new political age, or groundbreaking political movement, must be in want of an economic theory. And not…