Bank of England: a hawkish hold as bar to hike is lowered

The Bank of England kept rates on hold as expected but there was a clear signal that the bar to a hike is not that high.

On the one hand the decision was a little more dovish with many expecting a 6–3…

I think you’re right, but there’s still a lot of African and Indian Labour that is untapped as well as what looks like some pretty transformational technologies in manufacturing and construction and agriculture on the way in terms of industrial internet. The China shock is big but the Africa shock could likewise be massive. Medium term think you’re…

Lunch with the FT: Donald Trump

Before he entered the race for the White House, the property developer…

The world turned upside down: part two

I think you should all be in a political party. I think a person who is not in a political…

Children, magic, and the knight who liked chips

On Yeavering Bell and Gefrin (or why the Iron Age was shit)

On girls, guns and stereotypes

My daughter is three years old, and she has started making guns. She makes them from duplo, from pegs and…

Pikachu at the cemetery gates

There are Pikachu in Bunhill fields. A cornucopia of Pikachu. The first time I went I caught three. I got a…

Britain’s Political Economy is Changing. Labour needs to become relevant.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote how globalisation itself was fraying, driven partially by the rising political anger of its losers. The people who live under the “elephant trunk”.

Hmmm… I would say that “the simple caricature of what people tend to believe the IMF recommends” could also be described as “what the IMF actually does recommend, when it’s constructing concrete programs rather than virtuously warbling in thinkpiece documents”. This is all well and good, but when you look at, say, the program for Greece, it’s still…