Why it’s time to start backing britain

“History is just one f**king thing after another,” declares a vulgar schoolboy in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. Surveying the past 25 years can feel the same way. From Iraq to the euro crisis

It’s been a tough two decades for UK-listed firms. BP, Shell and HSBC have dropped out of the ranks of the world’s largest listed companies. Britain’s current largest firm, AstraZeneca, doesn’t even m

“After the drought, here comes the rain,” says Nils Pratley in The Guardian. “Well, more of a light drizzle.” The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has endured a miserable year for listings, but a clutch of

Emerging markets (EMs) are back. The MSCI Emerging Markets index delivered a 31% return over the first ten months of the year, compared with just 18% from the developed markets-focused MSCI World inde

Every generation gets one industrial revolution. Ours is AI – still novel, not yet fully understood, but certain to become so embedded in life that we’ll forget how we ever worked without it. The ques

Japan’s politics are unstable (see page 4), the yen is trading at multi-decade lows against most major currencies, long-term government bond yields have soared, and inflation is picking up again. Yet