Pragmatist

The crowdfunding campaign against the ban on British European Commission staff, in particular, discussing Brexit plans with UK officials...

Not a day goes by without someone declaring that the economic  impact of Brexit has been either overestimated or is being underestimated....

As one who loathes the use of party-political dogma to muddy the waters of sensible debate , I was delighted to read Tim Worstall 's li...

Westiminster recently feigned shock and horror that the UK's coppers cook the crime figures. But Simon Jenkins says we've known ...

I just don't get it. The UK is awash with debt it can't shift, yet the UK government thinks it's a great idea to ensure that ...

Ominous bursts of smoke have been rising from Gillian Tett recently.  On September 12, the lady who gave us Fool's Gold pointed...

It's not every day you get to brainstorm ways to bring diversity and sustainability to Britain's ailing financial system amidst ...

Our continuing economic woes seem to reveal a UK Treasury that has lost touch with the fundamental tax and regulatory problems in the UK ...

The response to the downgrade of the Eurozone bailout funds from Aaa has yielded a fascinating political response from the head of the ...

In a fawning interview in Monday's Telegraph, Ana Botin , CEO of Santander UK and billionaire's daughter, is lauded for having r...

Thanks to IPPR and The Finance Innovation Lab for an invigorating seminar on bank reform this morning. I've noted some of the h...

The Economist article on The Question of Extractive Elites certainly resonated with me last week, as it did with those involved in the s...

I’m with the Tories on the EU treaty veto. There are just too many unanswered questions for anyone not already implicated to sign up. ...

The IMF seems to be having a bad year. First it was accused of 'groupthink' . Then it was rumoured (again) to be considering Gordon ...

I've often berated the European Commission's vain attempts to catalyse cross-border markets using Directives . The law follows comm...

Yet another tip of the hat to Gillian Tett for her article on " Metaphors, Models and Theories " by Emanuel Derman , author of...

I've been reading article after article, and book after book about our financial crisis, and the really bad news is not the continuing p...