Politics ⁽³⁾

Ask politicians, investors or CEOs if growth is ‘good’ and their "yes!" will likely be as emphatic as the "no!" one might hear from concerned environmentalists. Such polarisation is due to different perspectives on what growth actually means. To reconcile these views, we must apply a system…

75 years ago today, Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces, and the Second World War was over in Europe. The day became known as VE Day. Along with countless others in the UK today, I watched on the BBC some of the original footage,…

This morning’s New York Times quote of the day makes me want to throw furniture: “Corporations are people, my friend.” said Mitt Romney, responding to a heckler in Iowa who wants higher corporate taxes. If corporations are indeed people then let’s subject them to the…