After Trump’s U-turn, Afghans’ suffering now has no end on August 24, 2017Savour it with every fibre of your being, because such events come seldom and are usually over in minutes. And don’t stare directly at it: the flash of hope could cauterise the retina. But for the moment at least, the madness of the Trump presidency has been partially eclipsed. This is not to suggest that […]
If the bankers leave London, it wont just be the city that will suffer – itll be Brexit voters who pushed them out on October 30, 2016 After all the surreal events of recent months, it took one Sunday newspaper article to remove any lingering doubt that we have slipped into an Alice in Wonderland parallel universe where all the old ways are inverted. To be precise, it wasn’t the British Bankers’ Association chief executive Anthony Browne’s warning that financial institutions […]