I have, in the last 24 hours learnt that there is a reasonable chance of Donald Trump not only failing to get the Nobel Peace prize but that Mark Carney might actually win.

I am naturally cynical about party conference speeches, when you are trying to whip up your own troops the risk of overdoing it, claiming the impossible, and promising the unreachable is all too power...

There is, I think, an excellent comedy to be made about the alleged terrorist attack on RAF Fairford.

We are currently awaiting the latest Budget in the UK (which must surely raise taxes), worrying about productivity and watching a “Succession” like battle at the large family owned digger manufacturer...

American mortgage rates are at 7% and despite the claims from and pressure by the President there seems very little chance of them falling anytime soon, in fact the markets are betting that they will ...

Once again the FT has proved that it is the go to paper for proper, sensible, balanced and informed coverage of the EU.

Britain wants to take a lead in regulating AI, well so do I and my lovely dog Barney is keen as mustard.

President Donald Trump once again added to the dignity of his great office, first honoured by the father of the nation George Washington, at the United Nations in New York.

The unforeseen consequences, unforeseen by Trump that is, of a tariff war with his best friend and ally Canada are beginning to be more evident, although not it seems to President Trump.

It is totally obvious that Donald Trump is appallingly badly educated, ignorant and dangerously misinformed, but that does not mean he is stupid.

Apparently in the USA the Republican party is now throwing money at districts which it has previously won by margins of between 6% and 15%.

This week the Prime Minister of Canada attended the annual State of the Union speech in the European parliament and was rewarded with the offer of “associate membership”.

I am indebted to David William Scott FSCI on Linkedin for highlighting the above graph, from UBS’s Global Wealth Report 2026.

Once again the UK’s triple lock pension is going to pay out big time for state pensioners.

One of the worst things about the Trump presidency is its sheer pettiness.

The Russian attack on a Ukrainian train near the Polish border just after several EU officials and Boris Johnson had departed, may just have been bad luck, but I doubt it very much.

Inflation in the USA is rising and given the total failure of his Middle Eastern policy President Trump is reduced to lying about it or claiming higher fuel prices are a short term price worth paying ...

I once did a very interesting story for the BBC, showing that the wealthiest part of the country (Kensington and Chelsea) was only a few stops on the Central line in London from one of the poorest.

Amid a hectic week of ever more frenetic and loony social media rants by President Trump, one seems to have not quite got the attention it deserved.

There is a test for the right wing in the UK, not the far right they have already failed totally but for the Tory party and its media supporters.

President Trump now says he is going to ban the Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier from selling its planes in America, unless it builds aircraft there.

One of my kind readers responded to a recent blog by pointing out that it is easy to say we do not spend enough on defence and we have to find the money from somewhere, but that it is far more difficu...

One of my kind readers responded to a recent blog by pointing out that it is easy to say we do not spend enough on defence and we have to find the money from somewhere, but that it is far more difficu...

I came across one of Warren Buffet’s investment strategies yesterday and it explains a lot about the world we live in.

My brother swears that, many years ago, he met the charming wife of a British army Brigadier who was Labour voter through and through.

I came across a great statistic the other day.

I came across a great statistic the other day.

Yesterday, the newest British Prime Minister told the Commons that much of the country’s problems were due to Thatcherism.

The current actions by President Trump and his team, especially Hegseth, remind me of a very valuable lesson I learnt at university from a Professor of Russian politics.

At the moment the US is borrowing almost 6% of its GDP every year to help pay for government spending.

Two headlines in the UK approach the same problem from different angles this morning.

John Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA, has made a trip to Moscow, which if it was supposed to be secret was a total failure.

I know little about AI and less about crypto (except to avoid it using a barge pole) but both are now far to big to ignore and seem to be presenting many of the symptoms of a bubble.

I was going to write today about Mark Carney and Brussels but I am writing the story for The New World newspaper so you can read it there shortly.

One of my readers asked after yesterday’s blog what my views are on British farming and our dependence on imports to feed the population.

I must admit I do not have that much sympathy for farmers.

I have visited Canada a couple of times for work and would love to go there on holiday.

It was James Carville who said if he was reincarnated he wanted to come back as the bond market because they can intimidate anyone, but not it seems the Trump administration.

There is another of those rather worrying articles in the FT about the state of Britain's defences.

Andy Burnham, the UK’s new Prime Minister, is travelling the country examining the cost of living crisis.

American aircraft carriers are in the news at the moment.

One of the biggest problems with Donald Trump is not that he is petty and thin skinned (although he is dangerously touchy), it is that, unlike say Nixon, who would rant and scream about every possible...

Forest fires, houses burnt to the ground, train derailments, three or is it four heatwaves, hose pipe bans and a Government warning on using BBQs, fireworks and the rest; but be calm because it is not...

I have awoken here in the UK to the excellent news that Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform, has been re-elected in a by-election in Clacton.

I have very little to say about Trump and the food van, except to say I remember a short story once where a dictator became impossible to overthrow because he could tele-transport himself and his imme...

In America there has been a specific law for over 2 centuries which forbids anyone but the government negotiating with foreign powers.

I came across an old book the other day that I was thinking of re-reading and found I had written something on the fly-leaf many years ago.

The death throes of the Tory party are almost painful to watch, as it ties itself in knots trying to outmanoeuvre Reform on the right, where there are few votes and very few rational policies that the...

The scale of the change to the climate and the environment of Europe is so huge and so varied and so rapid that we are obviously failing to keep pace with the news, let alone the disasters unfolding.

Yesterday I criticised journalists for just letting right wing bigots mouth off on impossible fascist fantasies without bothering to look up, and put, simple facts to them.