Philip Ball / February 7, 2014
Famous scientists are making their big discoveries ever later in their careers. A study in 2011 found that the average age at which Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine conducted their...
Jay Elwes / February 7, 2014
Andrew Sentence is a former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, the body responsible for setting UK interest rates. He is now Senior Economic Adviser at PwC and his latest book...
Lucy Webster / February 6, 2014
As a pretty shy person, I do not usually volunteer for public speaking opportunities. But sometimes, the opportunity to discuss a subject I care about with a wider audience is too good to refuse....
Jay Elwes / February 6, 2014
Yesterday, the Institute for Fiscal Studies issued its Green Budget. Its name suggests otherwise, but this document has nothing to do with environmentalism. Instead it is a piece-by-piece analysis of...
Jay Elwes / February 6, 2014
Andrew Sentence is a former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, the body responsible for setting UK interest rates. He is now Senior Economic Adviser at PwC and his latest book...
Jay Elwes / February 5, 2014
Andrew Sentence is a former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, the body responsible for setting UK interest rates. He is now Senior Economic Adviser at PwC and his latest book,...
Emran Mian / February 4, 2014
Who said what to whom?
Chuka Umunna, Shadow Business Secretary, told the Federation of Small Businesses in a speech last week that a Labour Government will create a Small Business Administration...
Jonathan Derbyshire / February 4, 2014
Demonstrators on the "Manif pour tous" in Paris on 2nd February
In the January issue of Prospect, we identified "12 debates that will shape the coming year". One of them concerned what we decided...
Jay Elwes / February 3, 2014
Andrew Sentence is a former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, the body responsible for setting UK interest rates. He is now Senior Economic Adviser at PwC and his latest book...
Jay Elwes / January 31, 2014
Today, the Office for National Statistics issued a paper on wages and productivity. The findings were not good. Wages in Britain have declined sharply since 2010, while at the same time inflation has...