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Originally published May 2021. In the early 2000s, before the financial crisis, a debate dominated central banking: whether central bankers should try to reign in financial bubbles in what was called ‘lean against the wind’. That is, over and above their macroeconomic targets – keeping inflation...
Originally published March 2021. David Baddiel’s polemic Jews Don’t Count has proved surprisingly controversial. He seems to have gone out of his way to rile political opponents...
Originally published February 2021. In a year of ‘special advisers’ falling on swords, the tale of Thomas Becket, martyred on 29 December 1170, can read like an overdramatized...
This article was originally published in October 2019. Saying I favour a no-deal Brexit in order to buy property cheaply after a resulting crash was wrong – and illogical....
Originally published June 2021. What do you mean, which boat race? There is only one: the Oxford Cambridge Boat Race on the Thames. The Boat Race experience is binary. Seven...
Originally published February 2021. A novelist in our post-God world where ideology has so often replaced faith, and where the very value of truth and what constitutes betrayal...
Originally published May 2021. In their desperation to find a reason for why bitcoin is terrible-bad-destructive-awful and morally reprehensible, the crypto-obsessed authors of...
This article was originally published in June 2020. If there might be a “successor ideology” to liberalism and the main principles of the enlightenment in the offing, as the...
Two recent entrants into private equity real estate recount their first few months in London.
Why the legal protection of property rights needs to be considered in Sao Paolo.