Browse market commentary, macro analysis, and student-led reporting.
France’s bond revolt is starting to look less like a market wobble and more like a eurozone-style warning, as political paralysis, rising borrowing costs and a government with little incentive to shrink the debt pile threaten to drain investor confidence and leave the French economy paying the bill.
Shea Sykes6 min read
Markets5th October 2026
As governments and technology companies compete for increasingly expensive capital, rising bond yields are reshaping the cost of borrowing. Does the growing demand for debt means for governments, financial markets and the future of the AI boom.
Ahana Bhattacharya6 min read
Student SpotlightPublic Policy4th October 2026
From next April, the full state pension will be taxed for the first time. Two policies that were never meant to meet have collided, and the Chancellor has until the Autumn Budget to decide who pays.
James Haidry9 min read
Private Markets2nd October 2026
The London discount looked like the reason UK companies keep being bought. It was really the lender's underwriting policy, and that sets the ceiling regardless of where the shares trade.
Abir Ghosh Biswas7 min read
MicroPolicyStudent Spotlight30th September 2026
As Britain races to expand its electricity grid, Ofgem's new commitment fees should thin out a crowded connections queue, but only if they test whether projects are progressing rather than how deep developers' pockets are.
Thomas Clarke11 min read
MacroOpinion28th September 2026
Some would describe the so-called "neoclouds" as the railways of the AI revolution that facilitate the steam-trains of the next most powerful chips to thunder across. However, are these AI infrastructure giants economically viable in the long term?
Shea Sykes5 min read
Global HealthcareMarkets28th September 2026
Anthropic's Claude has identified a previously uncharacterised biological system. For biotech investors, the real breakthrough could be AI making the earliest stage of drug discovery much cheaper.
Abdul Wasey Bhatti5 min read
Public Policy28th September 2026
Reform's £72m donor row shows Britain isn't turning into America, the rules are stricter and tightening, but the scale and the alleged foreign-money dodge make this a genuinely serious case, not just media noise.
Josh Dolan10 min read
Macro28th September 2026
How Bangladesh’s garment industry transformed more than just the country’s exports, giving millions of women paid employment and reshaping education, fertility and household decision-making.
Ahana Bhattacharya7 min read
Markets24th September 2026
Private equity's hopes dating from 2025 have once again been simmered this year, and the liquidity reckoning could quietly rewrite how the industry raises and returns capital.
Sonal Weerasekera7 min read
Student SpotlightMacro23rd September 2026
Trump's promised $5,000 dividend has no confirmed funding source, raising questions about its inflation and economic risks. Here's what the numbers say.
Ranulf Kirby10 min read
Markets23rd September 2026
Rearmament has turned defence from an industry private capital avoided into one it is pouring money into, though Europe's governments are increasingly particular about whose money it is.
Alexander Eklund15 min read