“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning” – Winston Churchill        Over three hundred and fifty years ago, back in 1665, …

“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain” – Carl von Clausewitz In times of uncertainty you start with the facts and move on from there. Pan-European equities fell over 8% on the …

“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain” – Carl von Clausewitz In times of uncertainty you start with the facts and move on from there. Pan-European equities fell over 8% on the …

With ‘fast fashion’ being so prevalent in today’s world, perhaps we should not be surprised that Oscar Wilde’s dictum looks a little slow as the world only racked up four successively positive months before a reversal. May 2019 will not …

Thinking about everyone’s favourite subject, it was striking to read that a well-known UK consumer confidence index indicator released in the last few days was flat for the third month in a row, with an accompanying write-up that included the …

Welcome to March, a time in the past when I have gone all Shakespearean in my written musings and quoted the famous words imagined uttered to Julius Caesar before his assassination. It looks as if the Ides of March (typically …