Jules Evans

Jules Evans is a freelance journalist and writer, who covers two main areas: philosophy and psychology (for publications including The Times, Psychologies, New Statesman and his website, Philosophy for Life), and emerging markets (for publications including The Spectator, Economist, Times, Euromoney and Financial News).

#Smeargate

The smeargate story rumbles on, though the reporting on it is patchy. I thought the Evening Standard, on Tuesday evening, got right to the heart of it,...

Water cap and trade

Just did an interesting interview with Neil Eckert, the CEO of Climate Exchange PLC. They're the private company that owns the European Climate Exchange,...

Death by blog

The blogosphere can be fairly brutal. This weekend, it is busy consuming the political careers of two New Labour apparatchiks - Derek Draper, who runs the...

‘Oh Dear’-ism

The highlight of last night's Newswipe - Charlie Brooker's rather weak British answer to the Daily Show in the US - was a brief video by Adam Curtis, the...

KGB versus reality TV

While we in the UK genuflect before the shrine of reality TV and its patron saint, St Jade of Essex, in Russia, minister of interior and KGB tough-guy Rashid...

Is Geithner breaking the law?

Just adding to my post below, there's an excellent interview by Bill Moyers at PBS with William Black, an American academic expert in fraud, and one of the...

Another bank scam?

Schroders'  head of ABS, Chris Ames, thinks the Public-Private Investment Programme (PPIP) set up by US Treasury secretary Tim Geithner is in danger of being...

Banks: utilities or casinos?

I was at a very interesting little conference at the Liberal Club yesterday, on the 'future of the financial industry'. The first speaker was Vince Cable, who...

Wall Street on Ice

In the latest Vanity Fair, a brilliant article by Michael Lewis (author of Liar's Poker) on Iceland. It's a sad, funny and surreal story: An entire nation...

The Put People First march

People in the City are muttering about being invaded by a horde of Swampies this weekend, for the Put People First march. There's sure to be a lot of angry...

Who’s who in the Niger Delta

Check out Stratfor's funky interactive graphic of power politics in the Niger Delta. It has a graph showing the relationships between all the big players in...

Finance goes medieval

I think we're going through a commercial revolution in reverse. In the 12th - 14th century, finance gradually worked its way free of ecclesiastical limits,...

Bringing back National Service

Just thinking through how our society copes with climate change. One way might be to bring back national service. Why? 1) We need to train a generation of...

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