International economics editor at The Daily Telegraph, formerly Europe correspondent for The Australian Financial Review.
London, England
Joined March 2012
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Brilliantly done by @RobTemple101 - creator of @SoVeryBritish.
Manager meeting for food packaging. So true!
French politicians have two masters: angry voters and anxious bond investors. The pair are wrestling for control of France's destiny.
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It’s not just Putin whose war chest is under strain.
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After Trump lifted Irish reunificationists' hopes, Garvaghy Road sent them diving again. But although unity requires the sectarian scars to heal, a future referendum will more likely turn on the economics of the merger.
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Mamdani has taken retail politics to a place I’m not sure any other politician has yet found.
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Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
The Trump plan for keeping America in charge is "energy dominance": get the world addicted to US oil and gas. But China has its own energy dominance agenda, and the rest of the world is caught in the middle.
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A tale of two energy transitions... and how Britain's one seems to have overlooked the security dimension.
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Tourist taxes are coming to England. The lesson from Europe: politicians find these levies all too tempting; which means once you've got one, the rates tend to go only one way.
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Burnham has cited Finland as a model for his plans to tackle homelessness. But Britain faces hurdles that Finland didn't; and Finland's own progress has faltered, for reasons that will be very familiar here in the UK.
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I've spent more than 20 years living in Britain, and I've never seen a summer like the one we just had. Now we might get an El Nino like none the world has seen in my lifetime. This essay looks at how Britain's farmers and consumers are both set to suffer.
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Germany's economy, already punch drunk, now faces a fresh blow. If the coming winter isn't mild, it'll be very expensive.
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I'm laughing right now, but ... I might've once laughed at my then-toddler children's amusing, clumsy-cute antics, yet now they're adolescents who are better than me at maths, cricket and card games, and will be better than me at pretty much everything before the decade is out.
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Mark Carney was Bank of England governor during the Brexit years, so he'd have heard a lot of the famous phrase that 'No deal is better than a bad deal'.
As Canadian PM, he's now had to make that mantra his own... and will be finding out if it's true.
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French Finance Minister Roland Lescure says France can no longer just resort to raising taxes when problems arise. But ... maybe that doesn't apply to keeping the 'temporary' ones you've got?
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What's all this kerfuffle in the bond markets? Find out here:
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Hans van Leeuwen retweeted
We could've avoided weeks of drought by just scheduling test matches earlier.
This is so great. Despite the acknowledged dearth of south-east London!
For my ‘side hustle’ Substack, I listed 50 places in London that I’d like to live.
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