You don't need us to give you links to the current slew of lurid JP Morgan / London Whale stories: you can hardly move for them.  And ...

When I started this blog in 2006, one of the main drivers was to discuss the intersection of business and politics. With hindsight, in the m...

Some years ago when I was a councillor, I attended a big public meeting called by London Transport, as it was then. The occasion was 'C...

The astounding, no, amazing news this morning is that under intense pressure the Greek socialists have put together what might prove a wor...

Winner of the first half of the 2012 Question Time competition is  Measured A fantastic result that humiliated Dick the Prick  {if ...

This is the final of the league. Looks like its between Measured and DP. { All Questions score double! {After this - it'll be the E...

Some interesting developments in the public Energy space in the past few days, starting with the 2 Chris's: Chris Smith Says Yes To...

Very confused today as I thought the Queen's speech was something to do with the Leveson enquiry. Turns out it isn't. What is it...

Well.  I studied philosophy myself , and we had lots of fun: Wittgenstein, Frege, all the lads. T here's nothing Nietzsche couldn...

EDF, one imagines, is going to have its work cut out under le nouveau régime .  Firstly, it must dissuade President Hollande from pursuin...

(...and maybe start some in the UK - another post for this later in the week though). The Sweeping victory for Flanby has culminated in ...

Labour have swept the board. Ed Miliband deserves congratulations. It was a great success. 854 new councillors, quite widely spread acro...

Still waiting for the London election results. This is going on forever. Finally at midnight SKY call it for Boris with 51%-49% which...

While we await the outcome of Mr Q's poll of polls, let's consider another imminent democratic dénouement : the benighted Irish a...

Question Time Election special. These election ones are really difficult. So instead of the usual QT tonight its a voting special à l...

I really find this hard to credit. "2,000 senior public officials on more than £58,200 were found to be paid “off payroll” ... paid ...

Whilst passing through the airport I alighted on a sight that made me reconsider the disaster that it the full passport check imposed on n...

So which is the only nation of the European 28 (EU 27 + Norway) where labour costs have fallen since 2009 ? It's Ireland. Whe...

Everything I read or see at the moment has people going on about hating rich people , even churchmen who should know better. In a capitali...

When German energy companies plot the map showing where their gas comes from, it must give them a frisson of atavistic horror. The great ...