When Martin Amis published his first novel in 1973, The Times Literary Supplement described it as “scurrilous, shameless and very funny”. ...

Unless you have taken the wholly reasonable stance of avoiding the news over the past 10 days or so, you will be aware that the nation’s finance...

There was a neat piece in the latest issue of Private Eye, out last week. There frequently is, of course. This one opened up thus: “A bombshell ...

You are probably aware that the government announced its budget last week. There was, understandably, quite a fuss about it. It was the first by a Lab...

Taylor Swift is back in London this week, with a string of five shows in six nights starting at Wembley on Thursday evening. She was there for three g...

Yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, unveiled his spring budget for 2024. It is likely to be the last major financial event until t...

I was reminded by a piece in The Guardian the other week that September has historically been a sometimes savage month for high finance. For example, ...

A few years ago there was a joke circulating on social media that imagined a world 200 years from now in which the British prime minister went to Brus...

The biggest fiscal curse facing the nation, we have repeatedly been told by the government and the Bank of England, is inflation. The country has been...