What Literature Wants (to get in your kishkes)
Does poetry matter less than it once did? Poet and author Dana Gioia says America is living a cultural paradox: “There has never been a country in the history of…
Does poetry matter less than it once did? Poet and author Dana Gioia says America is living a cultural paradox: “There has never been a country in the history of…
Plans for a major new film studio complex in east London have been given a further boost after the scheme’s Hollywood backer announced it was pumping a further £50m into…
In my previous Defining Ideas article, “An Unnecessary ‘Stimulus’ ” (March 5), I laid out why the about-to-be-passed $1.9 trillion federal spending bill was unnecessary. I also pointed to a few…
The government borrowed £19.1bn last month, marking the highest figure for February since records began amid the spiralling cost of support measures during the pandemic. Figures from the Office for…
Back in July or August, I was walking along Alvarado Street minding my own business. Suddenly, someone with a Monterey city government worker logo on his shirt came up to…
More than half of the country’s employees travelled to work last week for the first time since official figures began being recorded last June. The Office for National Statistics reported…
A commenter directed me to a Noah Smith post that begins as follows: One of the most important questions in macroeconomics is one that economists have curiously chosen not to…
BOPP, a brand-new payment platform that removes the need for cards, and uses Open Banking to facilitate immediate, secure payments directly from one bank account to another has launched. A…
Logical impossibilities make rational discourse impossible. A and non-A cannot both be true. Everybody cannot have an income higher than the median or the average. Nobody can consume if nobody…
Withdrawals from cash machines in the UK have fallen by £37bn during the 12 months of the Covid pandemic, renewing the debate over the future of cash. Link, which oversees…