Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Our contributors go back in time to look at how trends in property investment have been affected by economic history – and vice versa
Few events have contributed more powerfully to England’s sense of identity as a sovereign Protestantnation than the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. But for that, England might have become a dominion of Spain – at that time the most powerful nation on earth – and found herself drawn into...
Originally published June 2023. Whenever you ask a golfer what caused the great boom in golf in the 19th century, the most common response by far is “the railways.” But the...
Originally published in March 2023. A crisis that did more good than harm. The further it recedes into history, the more the abdication of Edward VIII seems like a fairly minor...
Few documents in the history of the world have achieved as iconic a status as Magna Carta. It remains one of the best-known documents in British history, and its influence has...
It is well accepted that golf began on the linksland on the east coast of Scotland, played there at least since the 16th century. Once the railway age began, and holidays at the...
How the French take-over changed England profoundly. When Messrs Sellar and Yeatman produced their classic satire of the history that could be remembered from schooldays, they...
A new book explains how, where and why golf took off in England in the late 19th century. Not many books on sport are written about who came second, but that is what this one is...
Our reaction upon hearing the news of the shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe was one of shock and incredulity in equal measure. What followed was a frenzy of trying to...
As Americans continue to reel from years of dismisinfoganda, government censorship and government-inspired, if not directed, private censorship, they would do well to recall...
It won’t control interest rates and inequality will widen. The UK local elections in May saw gains for nationalists in Scotland and Northern Ireland, raising the prospect of...