“Nothing so undermines your judgement as the sight of your neighbour getting rich,” wrote JP Morgan in 1905. As I write, a telecom company is digging up the street outside the window, laying cables, promising me the world from my living room in a matter of months. The...
Think about the guy who has just won a rake on the horses or the lotto. The becomes everyone’s mate, doling out sweeties in a new pub, which he has now decided to frequent. There he meets new mates and when not buying rounds, he’s down the bookies. His life...
In the week Facebook announces a floatation archives from 2006 on the Arctic Monkeys and the impact of the internet on the music industry and from ten years ago, warning against paid-off economists pretending to be objective analysts for the housing...
This day ten years ago, arguing that the mortgage system was skewed completely in favour of the banks and this week, five years back, arguing for early intervention our education...
From this week five years ago, podcast of me and Dan Mc Laughlin debating house prices – a cracker! From ten years ago, article of de Tocqville, social mobility in America and immigration in...
This week 5 and 10 years ago. The first article from the archives is about the search for some meaning at Christmas as the nation continued to splurge in late 2006 and the other article from that week about the state of the roads. This week ten years ago, on the eve...