... He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust alike As so often, the Bible has...

So (congrats Boris!) I saw snuck out this week by the Prime Minister was finally a review of how people enter the UK. Now the virus is under...

This is the biggest unknown question at the moment  - jut how bad is Covid-19 and how bad is the economy? Boris is back at work today, but...

One of our recent visitors queried my offhand comment that EDF was in Big Trouble (BTL on the "Negative Prices" piece). Easy:  E...

Really despair at the media approach to the world currently, everything is shock and awe and it shows up how few of the journalists really u...

"Down with this sort of thing! ... It's very immoral, Jim, you wouldn't like it ..." The volcanic eruption that is th...

Gotta keep up with what's going down.  Chinese capitalism is a common theme in these two pieces. 1)  Here's a long review of Capi...

As night follows day, so the media hyperventilating about the need for a hard lockdown have switched to demanding an end to it. The lockdo...

I don't know how many people are aware of negative (wholesale) prices in the energy industry.  They often come as a surprise to the laym...

With the implosion of Bernie Sanders and the final damping of the pitiful Long-Bailey squib, the misery for the Anglo-left seemed complete f...

I really hope the Government can do a better job of Lockdown undoing than they did of doing it in the first place. If we remember those he...

Herd immunity, a phrase spat out by Beth Rigby and Adam Boulton, is in fact the only route out of our crisis. A six month lockdown is not go...

A couple of weeks ago I did a piece on Black Swan s involving some technical stuff on risk management, and someone asked if there was more. ...

Our old friend Sackerson and I have periodically debated between ourselves what attitude one should take as regards national self-sufficienc...

Having praised Wolf Hall to the skies here - for its writing, its takes on court politics and fake news, its take-down of Bolt's Thoma...

Sorry for the absence this week, family illness and other things have taken up all spare time. The non-stop Covid news is very trying for ...

Winners so far: Strong goverments who put it about a bit... Amazon - having nearly destroyed the retail economies of the West, they hav...

This is potentially going to upset some of our most loyal readership, but ... Hitchens is Wrong. I first met him a long time ago: I was ed...

In normal times, markets are a keep lifeblood of a capitalist economy. They send the singal to participants and the Government about the sta...

One of the many great things about Enron, long before it went under, was that it brought really strong financial practices into the energy i...