The outcry at proposals recently floated by FSA chief Lord Turner in Prospect suggests that the City knows they would be effective. The City does not fear “regulation”; regulations can always be...

Following headlines over the past week about FSA chief Adair Turner’s comments in Prospect magazine on the “swollen” financial sector and his calls for a Tobin tax, we've gathered a diverse...

Adair Turner has done public debate (and Prospect magazine) a big favour by spelling out carefully and coherently what many people have long felt intuitively about the British financial system. He...

Prospect's exclusive roundtable interview with Adair Turner, in which the FSA chief called for the introduction of a Tobin tax and described the finance sector as having "grown beyond a reasonable...

“Rose didn’t have triplets,” Texas political operative Robert Strauss famously said in 1980, nastily suggesting that Ted Kennedy fell short of the standards set by his two older...

An exclusive roundtable discussion led by FSA chief Adair Turner about global financial regulations in this month's edition of Prospect (out today), in which the head of Britain’s top banking...

What is the culture of the countryside? What does it consist of, if it exists at all? We could all, perhaps, offer a rather bland and romantic definition which would involve all things green and...

Thousands of teenagers receive their A-level and AS level results, and with the pass rate going up for the 27th consecutive year, the annual debate over whether education standards are falling has...

In 2008 Dubliners enjoyed the fourth largest net salaries in the world, behind only New York, Geneva and Zurich according to a recent report by Swiss bank UBS. The Irish capital also came fourth in...

Foreign Policy (FP) today launched a AfPak Channel where they offer a preview of the Afghan election. They report that with just two weeks to go "what had been a yawn of a race is suddenly a...