Our schools do not come even close to teaching overtly the skills for life needed to thrive and survive. Schools were once built to build character for nation builders. A generation of snowflakes, entitled and crackable at the slightest trouble...

I’ve got bad news. There isn’t enough money. Not enough for the NHS, not for the trains. I’ve spent eight hours in A&E this past week and 3 hours standing on a train from Leeds. Why standing? Because yet again the previous train was cancelled.

So will tariffs mean problems for the markets? Not really. I know it is surprising. You see tariffs do impact businesses, but not so much consumers. Tariffs are also easy to bypass, you just do what Harley is doing, move production to Europe...

How do you make closer connections between UK India. Or indeed any two countries. The recent UK India Week, the brainchild of Manoj Ladwa’s IndiaInc, provides some important rules.

For God’s sake a is stabbed and killed outside Parliament – yet a man wielding a knife outside Parliament is left untouched by Police – it happened he was using the foot long blade to cut the Indian flag. London has a knife crime problem. Knives...

India's Finance Minister Piyush Goyal has announced that a bankers' panel would look at the feasibility of setting up a new asset reconstruction company (ARC) or asset management company (AMC) to take over bad loans of public sector banks (PSBs)

Priyanka Chopra is in a hot political mess. Her, now cancelled, show Quantico about an FBI agent, had as its latest plotline some Hindu Nationalists set to bomb Manhattan to blame it on Pakistan. (Because there’s a history of that [sarcasm])...

At the recent Bengal’s Pride Awards, as often happens, someone came up to me to tell me how much they enjoy my columns in the paper and read every one…the political ones not the financial ones!

If I had to say what I thought was the key reason more people do not make money trading, the answer is not: