There is always a potential way back for a governing party, as Mark Carney and the Canadian Liberals just showed. But those numbers look potentially terminal for the Tories. (View Post)
He is a brilliant politician - smart and agile in a way that no-one else comes close to matching. Of that there is no doubt and it's silly to say otherwise. He thinks in headlines, which is a tremend… (View Post)
To be fair to the Tories, how do you develop meaningful policy in a world where the economic, trade and financial foundations of the last 80 years are currently being torn apart? (View Post)
Multiple factors. This FT article is a great explainer: https://www.ft.com/content/fbe7ea0b-9738-4a34-b983-61747cef41e5 Markets are about spreadsheets and numbers blinking on a screen, but they are a… (View Post)
IP theft only exists where IP does. For a long time, Western companies did not bother to register patents and trademarks in China. Therefore, they had no IP there. This is not to whitewash Chinese IP… (View Post)