Christopher Fildes
Third Time Unlucky
“We should never trust the government — any government — to look after us in old age”
Fast Track To The Black
A modest proposal for reducing the National Debt
Pension Pot Luck
Imagine being allowed to own your own pension. Why, you might do something silly with it.
Cooking the Books
Lucky Osborne
Best Do Nothing
What can we learn from the economic consequences of the First World War?
Lucky Ken
How to ride the feelgood factor to the election
Eagling for Profit
How to train the customer
Insider War Trading
Banking and the First World War
When the House Came First
Today’s career politicians could learn a lot from John Biffen, an MP who hated soundbites
Beware the Sanguine Banker
Iain Martin’s message in his excellent Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy is that a proper sense of fear is good for bankers.
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal