You may say that Britain’s current industrial strategy is that they don’t have one. Many pro-market economists like to repeat the famous (amongst policy-wonks, at least) phrase: government is bad at picking winners, and losers are good at picking governments.…
A post-COVID de-globalised world could cause an existential threat to emerging economies that are hampered by large dollar debts, weak institutions and no safety net During the Spanish Flu, the majority of the coverage on the pandemic focused on the…
I will be the first to admit that I waxed lyrically about Zoom when I first found it. I even shot a podcast, as well as kept in touch with my best friends on the video conferencing platform. Indeed, since the new…
Our civilization has the potential to be a cornucopia of health, knowledge and freedom. Scientific and technological advances have significantly (to steal a phrase) ‘levelled up’ our wealth, safety from illness and ability to appreciate the world around us. Unfortunately,…
As a journalist, one factor that you incorporate into the complex decision of who to vote for in an upcoming election is how the media will change under prospective governments. Everybody now recognises the influence of the media (in both…
The election machinery of British politics has got going, albeit at a spluttering start. Each party is triangulating their own focus of political messaging as they jockey to articulate and guide the public mood. Whilst the Conservatives, Lib Dems and Brexit…