It would be difficult to make the case for 2021 having been  a ‘good’ year. Maybe the grape harvest will prove to have been a good one,...

I’ve never ploughed through the thousand-odd quatrains that make up Nostradamus’ Les Prophéties, although I have skimmed through odd...

Beautiful late autumn weather in southern England currently – clear skies, crisp air and barely a breath of wind. Ah, wait though. No...

This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The term ‘shadow money’ suggests...

This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. It’s been a while since my last...

“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best”, said Otto von Bismarck, the man who achieved the...

This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. After the cancellation last year caused...

A few months ago, when I wrote an article here about the likely closure of the LME Ring (obviously before its Lazarus-like revival….), I...

When I wrote last week that we needed to see some input from the grown-ups into the question of energy policy and security, I was working...

For the last eighteen months or so, we have all been bombarded by politicians, media, Twitter and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all with a...

So, the theatre is back. After eighteen months of silence and gathering dust, the trading floor in Finsbury Square is again echoing to...

This is only tangentially related to metals today – wait to the end for the connection – but the mayhem being reported from Afghanistan...

This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Hot on the heels of the LME confirming...

The Victorians (as in nineteenth-century British, not inhabitants of the Australian state) have a reputation for being repressed,...

This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. This week saw the London Metal Exchange...

I guess most readers of this will be familiar with the thought experiment of Schrödinger’s Cat, even if, like me, as non-quantum...

Most of us only know Lord Acton for one notable quotation, but he was in fact an interesting man for far more than that. A confidant of...

If I mention E M Forster, what comes to your mind? A Room with a View, Howard’s End and A Passage to India? Lush Merchant Ivory films,...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. With seagulls under instruction from...

So, my expectation that the LME Ring was doomed turns out – for the moment at any rate – to be wrong. After the sounding of the passing...