Ed Conway

If you’re wondering why it’s taken so long to find a new Bank of England governor, perhaps the best place to look is the job advertisement itself. “Applications are open,” it begins, “for one of the most exciting jobs in world finance.” There are many adjectives one might use to describe central ban

The disease could be the shock we need to harness new technology and new ways of working

Let’s begin with what will sound a terribly stupid question. Last month a prospective new North Sea oilfield, Cambo, was shelved after Shell pulled out of the

There have been many horrifying images from Ukraine but few as disturbing as the drone footage this week capturing the devastation of Mariupol

The new chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, has declared that he wants to boost economic growth from the present underlying rate of just under 1.5 per cent to 2.5 per

The story of how Liz Truss took the country to the financial brink before combusting in a ball of political flames begins not in Britain but on the other side

Did you know that the world’s first conventional power station was built not in New York or Berlin but in London? Holborn Viaduct power station was a coal-fired

I’m willing to bet you haven’t heard of the British Industry Supercharger. I’ve spent the past week thinking about the British Industry Supercharger but I stil

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, about 500 miles from the Atlantic, you will find one of the most bizarre monuments to 20th-century capitalism. Half engulfed by t