Arthur Laffer’s “curve” is one of the most destructive ideas in modern economics. Sketched on a napkin in the 1970s, it claimed that cutting tax rates could increase government revenue. It became gosp...

I couldn’t help choking up when the writer Katriona O’Sullivan told me her life story. Now I’m on a mission to get everyone to read her memoir, writes Adrian Chiles

Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato says governments must ‘get back their mojo’ and believe they can change the world