As economies across the globe recover from the COVID-19 crisis in very different ways, we are witnessing deepening global divisions where collaboration is necessary to ride out the pandemic, dress its wounds and move forward. It’s been over two years…
Discussing the cataclysmic events of 2020 and 2021 should, in my eyes, be an Olympic sport. You can ponder public health, the NHS or even slip into a conversation about which vaccine you received. Yet, despite these obvious changes to…
What do Israel, the USA and several member states of the EU all have in common? Mass vaccination campaigns which are being rolled out to 12-17 year old’s with millions already being jabbed. Just a matter of days ago, the…
Importance of universities Science and higher education are some of the UK’s strong points. Higher education earned the UK £10.71 billion in exports and, according to the Nature Index, the UK ranks fourth worldwide in terms of research output. This…
Politics is a funny thing. One day, the Conservative Party winning Hartlepool symbolises Boris Johnson’s continued erosion of Labour support and suggests the Tories will reign supreme for decades to come; weeks later, the Labour victory in Batley and Spen…
It’s been 11 months since I last hugged my family. I was fortunate though, as I made it back before the UK’s first lockdown last year – most Australians overseas haven’t been so lucky. Australia’s borders have been shut since…
2021 has barely begun and it has already become a year that won’t be easily forgotten. Though a cliche, it is something fundamentally correct. A third national lockdown in the UK. The US Capitol being stormed by Trump supporters refusing…
As we start 2021 and explore what could happen in financial markets over the coming months, it seems sensible to quickly look back and review what happened in 2020, a year of contradictions. It started off with markets reaching record…