Published in The Observer (January 20th, 2011) Eleni Gabre-Madhin rings the bell and another day of frenetic dealing starts at the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange. As she walks back to […]
Technology
Can Twitter and the internet start a revolution?
Published in the London Evening Standard (December 7th, 2010) It began over drinks in a pub in Islington. Friends in their twenties – teachers, students, voluntary sector workers […]
Arts / Economics / Music
Record sales plummet but the music plays on
Published in The Times (October 22nd, 2010) The deeply wonderful Elvis Costello has a new record out. It is available as a download, on CD, on vinyl and […]
Technology
East London may be the birthplace of a new Facebook
Published in the London Evening Standard (October 19th, 2010) It all seems so simple. One moment they are a bunch of students playing around on computers in their […]
Economics
The economist who got it right
Published in The Independent (January 6th, 2010) As we stand on the cusp of this new decade, shivering in the snow and contemplating a general election in a […]
Economics
The unlikely triumph of capitalism
Published in The Independent (April 4th, 2009) Presidents, politicians, pundits and protesters are united: Capitalism is in crisis; free markets are fatally wounded; the state is in the […]