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Let’s chat about AI

by Mark Tinker | Sep 11, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Fund Manager

Originally published July 2023. The professional classes are currently, and rightly, obsessing about the impact that AI will have on the service sector as ChatGPT gets exponentially smarter. The current iteration of ChatGPT – the most popular AI – is...

To lean, clean or reign supreme

by Joakim Book | Sep 3, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Guest Essay

Originally published May 2021. In the early 2000s, before the financial crisis, a debate dominated central banking: whether central bankers should try to reign in financial bubbles in what was called ‘lean against the wind’. That is, over and above their macroeconomic...

David Baddiel is wrong – anyone should be able to play Jews

by Adam Solomons | Sep 3, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Guest Essay

Originally published March 2021. David Baddiel’s polemic Jews Don’t Count has proved surprisingly controversial. He seems to have gone out of his way to rile political opponents – mostly antisemites, and their enablers and apologists. Rightly so. There will never be a...

Five myths about the partition of British India – and what really happened

by Navtej K Purewal and Eleanor Newbigin | Aug 18, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Historian

Originally published March 2023. This August marks 75 years since the partition of the Indian subcontinent. British withdrawal from the region prompted the creation of two new states, India and Pakistan. The process of transferring power grossly simplified diverse...

1936: the abdication of Edward VIII

by David L. Smith | Aug 18, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Historian

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 blip in the history of the modern British monarchy. Yet it was perhaps the decisive moment...