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Stephen King
Stephen King is HSBC’s Senior Economic Adviser and author of Grave New World (Yale)
Britain’s ‘sovereignty’ after Brexit will be determined by others
One minute a deal appears within reach, the next we’re told the Royal Navy will be arresting French fishermen
Infection rates are rising in the West but not the East
Is there a trade-off between individual freedoms and collective wellbeing?
G20: will Covid persuade countries to go green?
Even oil-rich Saudi Arabia knows full well which way the wind is blowing: it is modernising its economy
Chernobyl shows how blind conviction causes a meltdown in politics
Labour’s leadership has tried to fool us into believing the party does not have a serious problem with anti-Semitism
Vote-hungry politicians are bewitched by the spendthrift’s siren song
The claim that the economy can be virtually transformed overnight through public spending is implausible
Election hijacked by Brexit risks hacking off voters — and the world
Taking back control is rather tricky when the world is in danger of spiralling out of control
We don’t need genius of Biff to tell us stormy economic times beckon
The UK’s own Brexit uncertainties are merely the icing on an increasingly unappetising cake
We’ve lost the secret recipe for productivity
In the 11 years since the global financial crisis, output per hour has risen by a dismal 0.2 per cent a year
MPs’ brains have been scrambled in hunt for the right Brexit recipe
Our MPs have shown they can easily form a majority to vote down the poachers, the fryers and the boilers
Think of East Germany before you get lulled into the fantasy of no-dea
We would be an outsider looking in (as East Germany and other Soviet bloc nations were during the Cold War)