How many poets does it take to change a lightbulb? It's more complicated than you thought, by some way.

A savings glut creates global economic instability, and that's precisely the problem the world's got right now. The question is, what are we going to do about it? 

Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' ends the chance of a President being held in contempt of US courts, and that means US democracy is over. What happens next?

Donald Rumsfeld got his famous quote on knowns wrong: he ignored the unknown knowns, and they are a huge issue in modern politics.

Starmer wants us to think he's doing big foreign policy deals. He isn't. He's playing in the sandpit of international relations, and nothing is really changing. 

Can the US survive the assault on it from Trump, given how devastating he plans it to be?

The whole of the West has a childbirth problem. We're not having enough children to replace ourselves. Why is that? And what needs to change if the birthrate is to increase? 

Unless and until our politicians realise that every economic decision they make creates an economic reaction, they'll ignore that fact, but national accounting isn't even based on this methodology. 

Trump wants to be one of the wealthiest men in the world. That's when he became President for the second time, and this time, he intends that nothing should prevent him from achieving his goal.

The UK needs a migration policy that serves the needs of the country, everyone in it, and people who want to come here. Is that too much to ask for? Or would our politicians prefer to dig-whistle instead?