Well, it's almost upon us—Christmas party time in the city—a time when the worries of the year can be pushed aside and replaced with a seasonal hangover. Already the drinks receptions,...

Sitting at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam with no sign of a plane at the end of the airbridge, you could be forgiven for being slightly irked by the loudspeaker announcing: “The 11:30 BA flight...

The blogosphere is abuzz over Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner's Superfreakonomics, published in the US and Britain tomorrow. The book, subtitled Global cooling, patriotic prostitutes and why...

Sorry to have been AWOL for a few weeks. I have in fact been delving into the world of the former Soviet bloc to see if indeed there is anything we can learn about recovering from a...

Last year I lent $25 to a woman in Peru so that she could buy a cow. Cows, of course, cost a lot more than that but I wasn't the only one contributing—Alex from New York pitched in, as did Ivan...

Speaking at the City Banquet at Mansion House yesterday, FSA chief Adair Turner reflected on his interview last month with Prospect in robust terms, declaring that "I do not apologise for being...

It appears that Nicolas Sarkozy has taken a leaf out of Prospect's book. Following last month's interview with FSA chief Adair Turner, in which he described the City as "socially useless" and called...

How to mark an anniversary? Whether a happy or sad occasion it's always a tricky business, especially when that very anniversary is one marking a tricky business itself. A year on from the collapse...

In the last week of August, a corner of Blackheath in southeast London became home to Climate Camp 2009, a gathering of environmentalists and activists from across Britain under the umbrella of...

It seems an odd paradox that a sector dedicated to saving lives and improving health seems so habituated to pulling dodgy tricks, but once again the pharmaceutical industry has been caught with its...