Europe learned to govern wealth and forgot how to create it
The EU is cutting €37.5 billion of administrative cost against a €750 to €800 billion annual investment gap. Simplification is about five per cent of the diagnosis.
Writing
I write about business, economics and public policy in whatever format suits the argument. Long-form essays that show the working. Shorter policy analysis and opinion. Editorial cartoons when a picture lands harder than a paragraph. Video when the point moves better than it sits still. And commissioned work for organisations that want the same clear, sourced approach applied to their own subject.
Enterprise and competitiveness, capital and investment, and the firms that create the wealth.
02Growth and productivity, public finances, and the housing and cost-of-living questions underneath them.
03The EU, the UK and Malta, read against each other: three answers to the same questions.
Long-form pieces and columns, grouped by theme: economy and work, education and skills, governance, Europe and Malta.
Op-eds, policy briefs, reports, ghostwriting and strategy documents, written to your brief and to a fixed price.
The week in one drawing, when an argument is sharper as a picture than as prose.
Selected talks, explainers and appearances worth your time.
The EU is cutting €37.5 billion of administrative cost against a €750 to €800 billion annual investment gap. Simplification is about five per cent of the diagnosis.
UK public wealth went from a quarter of national income in 1970 to minus £695.7 billion. Where it went, and how to rebuild the state as a shock absorber.
Meta is on trial in California over a design its own research examined behind closed doors. The case for legislating a new model, and what the UK, EU, Australia and Malta are doing.
Britain is not short of money. It holds trillions in long-term capital. The growth problem is where that money goes, not whether it exists.
UK industry pays the most for electricity in the developed world, four times the American price. Why cheap energy is now a security question.
The powers exist and the state rarely finds the breach itself. What that pattern says about how institutions are really built to work.
A note on commentary
Most of the writing is analysis: trade-offs set out, sources shown, a clear line between what the evidence says and what I think. There is one strand where I drop the neutral register and make an argument openly, including on politics and public life. It is always signposted, so you know when you are reading analysis and when you are reading an opinion. You can find it collected in the commentary.
Business and enterprise, economics and growth, and public policy and institutions, across the European Union, the United Kingdom and Malta. Analysis is kept separate from opinion, and every claim shows its source.
Long-form essays, shorter opinion and policy analysis, editorial cartoons, and video, alongside commissioned work written to a client's brief.
The Portfolio page collects every published essay and article, grouped by theme, alongside the editorial cartoons, selected video, and the book Training That Sticks.
Yes. The Work with me page covers op-eds and columns, policy briefs, reports and white papers, speeches and ghostwriting, and strategy documents, each priced per brief.