The annual announcement of the Booker Prize Longlist is one of the highlights of the publishing calendar for readers of new fiction in English. The remit of the Booker is now so...
About Sabina Reeves
Investor's Notebook
TV is dead, long live TikTok!
What does it tell you when two of the world’s most cogent cinema essayists decide to put out books on TV? Mostly, it tells you that there hasn’t been much new cinema to talk...
Golden Oldie
China’s declining working-age population
Originally published October 2022. How it could elevate role of Vietnam and robotics in global supply chain China’s population reached 1.45 billion in 2022 and is forecast to...
The Storyteller
Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
Literary critic Edmund Wilson posed just this question in a 1945 edition of New Yorker magazine. He was being disingenuous. He didn’t care one jot for Agatha Christie’s wildly...
The Economist
FIFA and the Beautiful Game
The 2022/2023 season will go down as a landmark year in world football. The first World Cup held in the European winter. The attempt to create a European Super League quashed by...
The Economist
Eurozone, UK and US: contrasting demographic challenges
A nuanced picture for real assets’ demand Demographic trends throughout the eurozone, between member states and within nations, vary markedly. At the macro level, Europe’s...