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We don't just have snags with this VV house--'snags' suggests issues that are minor,' says Kelsey Aldritt of her newbuild Persimmon house just outside Pembroke, Wales. 'This house has had [...]

Lockdown is convulsing the British economy on multiple fronts. 'Going to work' has been upended, hitting transport and commercial property sectors. The demise of the high street accelerates as online [...]

I've worked for some media thoroughbreds--including the Financial Times, ITN and CNN--so I know the sense of assurance that comes from wearing the badge of a long-established journalistic brand. But [...]

The odds are now against Leo Varadkar winning another term as Taoiseach. Can he defy them? Back in October, Boris Johnson and the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met for 'last-ditch' Brexit [...]

Radicalism does not usually work out well for the Labour party. Michael Foot fought the 1983 general election on a hard-left manifesto famously dubbed 'the longest suicide note in history' [...]

The UK was the 'sick man' when we 'joined Europe' in 1973. Now, with Britain on the cusp of leaving, the European Union's largest economy is decidedly out of sorts. [...]

Gordon Brown used to say Britain's economy was in its best shape for 200 years. The Chancellor no longer makes this claim. The reason is that the UK is growing [...]

The FTSE-100 index of leading stocks is over 20 per cent up since Britain went into lockdown - 'bull market' territory. The government borrowed [pounds sterling]55 billion in May, nine [...]

With September marking a decade since the Lehman Brothers implosion, stand by for a slew of economic retrospectives. Any meaningful analysis, though, needs to get beyond historic balance sheets and [...]

Ulster says No. So went the Unionist slogan against the Anglo-Irish Agreement which paved the way to ending the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Signed by London and Dublin, the 1985 [...]

'The government has relished wearing the green jersey on Brexit and standing up to the British with the help of the European Union--and been aware of the political benefits of [...]

The relationship between the UK and the Republic of Ireland has 'reached a hunger-strike low', says a new study by an academic from Trinity College, Dublin. 'Relations have not been [...]

Since the crash ten years ago, stock markets the world over have been steadily recovering. The Dow Jones, a bellwether index, has enjoyed double-digit growth in five of the past [...]

No one is in any doubt about the problem facing Britain's railways. Over the past decade, rail fares have risen twice as fast as salaries. Yet across the national network, [...]

How did we get into this Brexit mess? Why is it proving so difficult to leave the EU? Was it Theresa May's botched 2017 election, which vaporised her Commons majority? [...]

'It was Plato who said storytellers rule the world,' observes Mariana Mazzucato, her powerful voice tempered with a beaming smile, 'But the stories we're constantly told about how value is [...]

Prefabs to solve housing crisis,' screamed the front page of the Sunday Telegraph last weekend. Can the shortage of homes in Britain really be so bad that ministers are floating [...]

Boris Johnson famously said that Winston Churchill would have voted for Brexit. The wartime leader's grandson--staunch Remainer and Tory grandee Nicholas Soames--dismissed such claims as 'appalling' and 'totally wrong'. This [...]

'It amazes me, simply amazes me, that journalists aren't all over these stories. Doesn't it amaze you too?' I'm in a plush room in a swanky central London hotel, in [...]

'How do you feel when you go back to Gary?' I ask Joe Stiglitz. 'Well, frankly, I get depressed,' he replies. 'The American middle class was created in places like […]

So Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker enjoyed a 'broad and constructive exchange' during their working dinner in Brussels. Last time the Prime Minister broke bread with the President of the [...]

Think we've done enough to avoid another financial crisis? Think again When I think about global stock markets these days, the image that springs to mind is the final scene [...]

'Did you really deserve the Nobel prize?' I ask Amartya Sen. 'Why do you think you won?' When you're sitting opposite the world's most respected living economist, at a time [...]

'There was never a consensus among economists that Britain should stay in the European Union,' insists Professor Patrick Minford. 'That was always rubbish.' During the heat of the referendum campaign, [...]

Negative interest rates are too crazy to contemplate, right? But they may be just around the corner What should we think about negative interest rates? What kind of Alice in [...]

It has been a month since the UK voted to leave the European Union--but something is missing. Where is the economic collapse? What of EUpocalypse Now? Where is the Brexageddon [...]

'For ten years or so, my name was 'that jerk',' says Professor Richard Thaler, president of the American Economics Association and principal architect of the behavioural economics movement. 'But that [...]