Money Matters
Your socks are an unexpected casualty of the US-Iranian war
The ongoing military conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran, which ignited on 28 February, is set to drive global clothing prices up by as much as…
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A Stiff Upper Lip at the Pump – Keep Calm and Watch the Petrol Price
For a nation that prides itself on keeping a stiff upper lip, nothing sharpens the mind quite like the prospect of a sudden spike in the weekly shop…
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The government to defend virtually extinct British steel
The government has stated that it will raise tariffs on imported steel and lower the current quota by design, to protect the domestic industry from failure. London now…
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Triumph of the Tin Can: How We Proved a £100m Jet Can Kill a Drone Made in a Shed
So, the RAF’s flashy new F-35B has finally drawn blood. On March 6th, over the dusty expanse of Jordan, a British pilot in a £100-million stealth jet blew…
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Gold and Oil, and Nothing Britain Is Known For: Why This Crisis Will Be Different
The abyss of another energy crisis is here, and naturally, it’s the British public left holding the bill. Britain is sleepwalking into a period of heightened energy risk,…
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Programmable Pounds, Not Pirate Money: The Banks’ Plan to Kill the Stablecoin
The British financial establishment is drawing a clear line in the sand over the future of digital money, and it is not placing its bets on the flashy,…
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Blood in the Water: Deripaska, and the Battle for Potanin’s Billions
London’s divorce courts look like gold plated theatres but the hearings held inside them are not private tragedies. They are corporate raids that use marriage law instead of…
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