In July, I suggested that despite the gloomy outlook for the United Kingdom, two important positive signals had been overlooked outside of specialist circles. The first...
I have held remarkably contradictory views about the staggering rise in gold prices this year, especially following the recent sharp reversal. On one hand, I would...
It has become all but impossible to ignore the breathless media coverage of AI. The technology’s accelerating progress is treated as an inevitability, a prospect...
Much about life under US President Donald Trump’s second administration is mystifying and strange, not least his treatment of the BRICS+ (Brazil, Russia, India, China,...
A recent edition of the Economist has an amusing if somewhat desultory lead article about the current state of the United Kingdom, describing it as...
