News

“At too many companies, the boss shoots the arrow of managerial performance and then hastily paints the bull’s-eye around the spot where it lands.”   Warren Buffett Stephen Powis, the […]

The 99% Organisation’s London Group Chair, Paul Bradford, took time out to pose a few challenging questions to Mark. Here are his questions, and Mark’s answers.   PB: We are […]

On 20 March, the UK government announced an unprecedented package of support during the coronavirus lockdown. More or less simultaneously, the US announced a $1 trillion support package. The packages […]

We recently (15 April, 2020) wrote an article suggesting that the UK lockdown was working – although there were serious gaps in the government’s lockdown strategy – but that it […]

We recently wrote about the need to fix our current form of capitalism by creating clean, competitive markets. One of the key points in that article was the need to […]

One of our most popular articles is this one explaining the dynamics of the virus in non-mathematical terms. Now we have gone one better with this animation. Click here to […]

We have now (15/4/2020) been in lockdown for just over three weeks. Because of the natural dynamics of the virus, we should not have expected to see clear evidence of […]

There are already many calls to unlock the economy quickly. And it is clear that these are dangerous. But economic damage from the lockdown is huge and the alternative is […]

If mathematicians have one tiny fault – a point which I am not ready to concede – it is that they are entirely unintelligible. If you ask a mathematician to […]

We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Franklin D Roosevelt, Inaugural Address.   We recently set out a three-point plan for Mr Johnson in which the first stage is […]