Reality Cheques

Who’d be a politician?   With expenses fiddles getting harder the pay is well below your going rate in the outside world, you are assumed t...

Earlier this month the Bank of England published ( http://goo.gl/sbgGJ4 ) a paper titled ‘The UK Productivity Puzzle’.  In summary, British...

For a teenage fan the arrival of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket in the 1970s was crushing.  The England team’s heart a...

Given the appalling way in which shares were issued prior to the Chelsea Pitch Owners EGM in 2011, enabling people connected with the club t...

We are on the brink.   The UK is in recession again, tax rises and public spending cuts are biting, unemployment – especially amon...

‘What we’ll do is create a system under which our most successful and knowledgeable people are highly incentivised to…. err…. quit…’...

In the lucky life that I live both my children have gone to private primary schools, and will similarly continue their independent s...