I’m not sure they’ve got the drive or technical skill to make the best use of the oil money. It’s always a difficult initiative in easy times to prepare for difficult times ahead.

…You haven’t I suppose ever mixed with politicians at close quarters. They’re awful…their stupidity is inhuman.

The UK office for National Statistics has identified the things that matter most for happiness as “health, relationships, work, and the environment” – a list that tallies closely with our basic goods. Given that our...

If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.

As long as the oil market remains buoyant, as it does for other commodities, then the Russian economy will prosper. The consumption boom is growing on the back of the wealth being produced by commodity...

The ‘rise’ of China has suddenly become the all-absorbing topic for those professionally concerned with the future of the planet,

[It is] voyeurism embellished with footnotes.