Democratic capitalism


Never mind the markets, capitalism has a crisis of faith

The trillion dollar packages haven’t worked, or the bank guarantees, but a suspension of disbelief might, an act of faith that the system can work again, writes Bernard Keane.

George Orwell: a riddle wrapped in a mythology

There’s a lot of proxy wars going on at the moment, and one is over St George Orwell. St George bears little relation to George Orwell, the writer whose work is full of the contradictions of a bizarre period.