Published Articles.

Aug 22, 2022

The case against the Treasury

Article for Sunday Times on the Tory leadership race

Jul 17, 2022

Sri Lanka's protestors took the palace, but China holds the key

Article for Sunday Times on China's role in Sri Lanka's crisis

Mar 5, 2022

Why are Chinese students so keen on the UK?

Article for the BBC website about Chinese overseas students at UK universities

Jan 30, 2022

China's zero-Covid policy puts growth under threat

Article for Sunday Times on Xi Jinping's economic strategy

Jun 4, 2021

The philosophy underpinning how money works

Article on cryptocurrencies for Prospect magazine

Oct 23, 2020

The welfare state after Covid: Back to Beveridge or beyond?

Beveridge saw the Second World War had provided a transformative shock. Could the coronavirus pandemic provide another?

Apr 3, 2020

The wrongs and rights of disaster price gouging

The market fundamentalists are not entirely wrong to warn against the popular urge to stamp out price fluctuations.

Mar 26, 2020

Has China really defeated coronavirus?

Looking beneath the bonnet of the headline data suggests declarations of victory against this new virus are premature.

Mar 25, 2020

Let's try and be more sophisticated about the reality of 'science'

The characterisation of “the science” as a fixed thing isn’t helpful and could even be dangerous.

Mar 24, 2020

Don’t waste time debating whether Trump’s ‘Chinese Virus’ tweets are racist

Simply look at the man's long and consistent record of xenophobia and then judge whether he's using the label in a factual way.

Mar 21, 2020

Time for a Universal Basic Income?

It’s certainly a beguiling argument. But there’s a powerful counter-case, too.

Jan 8, 2019

Social housing can be 'homes fit for heroes' once again

David Lloyd George never actually promised "homes fit for heroes" after the First World War. The Liberal prime minister's pledge was that...

Jan 8, 2019

Can a dash of socialism be good for capitalism?

If capitalism is defined by the question of who controls capital - the money that makes the world go around - there's one organisation...

Dec 30, 2018

Financial volatility matters less than we're told

Stock markets have been up and down like Santa in the world's chimneys this Christmas. After taking a record unfestive pummelling on 24...

Dec 25, 2018

Could 'peak stuff' be in sight this Christmas?

Many parents of small children will be familiar with the depressing Christmas Day rubbish routine. Presents are unveiled. The paper is...

Dec 22, 2018

Japan's justice system is in the dock alongside Carlos Ghosn

On 19 November Carlos Ghosn, the most famous man in the global automotive industry, touched down at Haneda airport in his private jet and...

Dec 15, 2018

Fantastic four? The future of the working week

As a society we can't seem to make up our minds about work. Do we want more of it? Or less? There's a chilling fog of fear over what...

Dec 14, 2018

Brexit insurance that is worth having

The Irish "backstop", the legal clause that offends the sensibilities of hardline Tory Brexiteers - to the point where they would be...

Dec 11, 2018

Is Emmanuel Macron’s France in the vanguard of a new economic revolution?

As he delivered his televised address to the French public on Monday night, following a month of street protests and intensifying mob...

Nov 27, 2018

The Tories have underfunded mental health services while boasting of their generosity

The overall economic and social costs to our society of poor mental health are estimated to be more than £100bn a year. In that context,...