Socialists should embrace luxury apartments. Sometimes the most optimal solutions can feel the most counterintuitive. Read why in my latest @financialtimes.com column.

Why socialists should embrace luxury apartments

High-end developments can be more effective at unlocking affordability than social housing programmes

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Why the world’s most populous nations are bad at the world’s most popular sport - @tejparikh.ft.com on China and India’s underperformance in football. Contrast to Cape Verde as.ft.com/r/ea6cec86-e...

Why are China and India so bad at football? My latest for @financialtimes.com. A strong talent pool and economic might are important but not sufficient conditions for footballing success: as.ft.com/r/b0cd0be6-6...

To drive productivity growth, rich nations must unleash land, labour, energy & capital. My latest for @financialtimes.com. As policymakers shift towards industrial interventionism, they risk neglecting the simplest drivers of growth: as.ft.com/r/b21afb0a-3...

Robots, not chatbots, will realise AI’s true potential. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Factory-floor applications of AI could significantly enhance rich-world economies. as.ft.com/r/f3b43f91-7...

Rejoining the EU is no panacea. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Rather than attempting to reverse Brexit, Britain should focus on its domestic economic growth agenda as.ft.com/r/17ff4308-8...

If the UK is to grow faster, it will need real “Manchesterism”— not the version Andy Burnham supporters appear to think he represents. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Manchester's revival is a triumph of private enterprise: as.ft.com/r/1d35fa4c-7...

Anti-AI populism is on its way. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Tech anxiety will be seized upon by politicians—echoing the anti-immigration rhetoric that has shaped public discourse over much of the past decade as.ft.com/r/7a960043-8...

China's comparative advantage IS industrial policy. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Western attempts to imitate Beijing’s economic strategy are unwise. as.ft.com/r/317c2dcc-6...

Why big tech IPOs could signal the top of the market. My latest for @financialtimes.com. A potential deluge of AI-related equity supply removes a source of upthrust for prices: as.ft.com/r/491c536f-7...

Great piece in @data.ft.com by @tejparikh.ft.com on how unwillingness to compromise by an angry divided electorate leads to instability and stasis

Britain gets the politics it deserves My latest for @financialtimes.com. Cakeism, impatience and low-quality public discourse contribute to the UK’s instability: as.ft.com/r/f0f38543-d...

Donald Trump's green new deal My latest column for @financialtimes.com: The US president has inadvertently raised the appeal of renewable energy across the world: as.ft.com/r/ac96a71b-a...

The UK acts richer than it is. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Britain's habits and virtues are built for a prosperity it no longer enjoys as.ft.com/r/a66d71ce-9...

Check out my latest column for @financialtimes.com: The S&P 500 keeps rising...the market appears to be adopting an Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs and Dubious Announcements (EBITDA) approach: as.ft.com/r/d23a0e69-d...

The stock market’s new approach to valuation

It is demonstrating an Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs and Dubious Announcements (ebitda) mentality

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Check out my latest column for @financialtimes.com: The S&P 500 keeps rising...the market appears to be adopting an Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs and Dubious Announcements (EBITDA) approach: as.ft.com/r/d23a0e69-d...

The stock market’s new approach to valuation

It is demonstrating an Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs and Dubious Announcements (ebitda) mentality

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How the Iran war will cement China's superpower status Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter: as.ft.com/r/1f7ba68f-1...

Will the Iran war derail the AI boom? Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter: as.ft.com/r/60fb1df9-7...

Britain should revive North Sea gas operations. My latest take for the @financialtimes.com in the wake of the Iran war: as.ft.com/r/2032ca48-2...

Iran war should prompt a North Sea rethink

[FREE TO READ] Sweating the UK’s natural gas assets can support the country’s green transition

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Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter (1/2) How technology reshapes our minds, with a specific look at the attention economy and its impact on our ability to focus: as.ft.com/r/3a187ac4-6...

Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter (1/2) Britain's penchant for self-destruction: as.ft.com/r/a17bbe0e-b... With insights from @peterallen.bsky.social, Tina Fordham and Kallum Pickering

Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) Recessions have become rarer. But that's not necessarily a good thing: as.ft.com/r/b1991122-0...

Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) The case against the AI ‘jobpocalypse’: as.ft.com/r/a18124f0-c...

First, THERE IS NO PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLE. If you find something "puzzling" about how the financial crisis, Brexit vote, pandemic, Brexit, 5 PMs and energy crisis knocked our low investment economy downwards, do something else. See @tejparikh.ft.com 1/ www.ft.com/content/583a...

The UK doesn’t have a productivity puzzle

The obstacles to higher growth in Britain are well known

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How one year of ‘America First’ left workers behind - some telling charts here in piece by @tejparikh.ft.com on how Trump's rhetoric has not matched reality. Other charts show weaking factory construction, the tariff impact on prices, and falling worker share of GDP www.ft.com/content/1afa...

Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter (1/2) How one year of ‘America First’ has left workers behind: as.ft.com/r/888fc154-4...

Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) Tech dominance is about innovation, and diffusion. That's why China may have the edge in the AI race: as.ft.com/r/869f07ba-8...

So much chatter on broadcast media about a topic to which the answer is known, as @tejparikh.ft.com sets out brilliantly here (free for first 300 clicks here, permanent link in replies):

Labour has already broken its manifesto commitments

[FREE TO READ] Tax rises, instability and a lack of pro-growth measures contravene the party’s election platform

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Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) Labour's broken manifesto promises, in charts: on.ft.com/3Xr1435

Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) New York and California are losing their economic shine: on.ft.com/3KgTk0C With insights from @scottlincicome.bsky.social, @taxfoundation.bsky.social, fDi markets, and Aziz Sunderji