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...

This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. All being well, the LME ring will...

This article was written by Bill Prast. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. In the rainbow of carbon-neutral scenarios...

It seems now that Cecil Rhodes is set to stay up in his eerie on the front of Oriel College, Oxford, looking out at the High Street,...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. When I visited NASA about 20 years...

I’ve just spent the last few days reading the book (The World for Sale, by Jack Farchy and Javier Blas) that Anthony Lipmann reviewed...

This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. And so it goes on. Whether to...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. At the heart of a new book, The World...

This article was written by Bill Prast. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The recent enthusiasm for revisionist...

‘There are classes of men in the world who bear more the same relation to society at large, that the wheels do to a coach: and are just...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. ‘All the world’s a stage, And all the...

This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The current monetary supposition...

It may be a surprise to some of the current generation of LME traders, but it’s not that long ago – well, a generation, I guess – that...

We’ve written quite a lot here recently about the LME Ring. But after all, what is it? A circle of red leather chairs with a bunch of...