A feast of Quantitative Easing

Peter Hoskin

Fire up the printing presses, once again. The Bank of England has just announced another £50 billion of Quantitative Easing, bringing the total monetary expansion up to £325 billion. And it probably won't end there: Citi, among other analysts, forecast that it could go as high as £600 billion next year.

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Fraser Nelson

It’s unusual for The Guardian and The Spectator to agree on anything, but Seamus Milne and our own John R Bradley are sceptical about these

Home boys

Andrew Brown

It sounds like a cushy life for a man. On weekdays he potters about at home, running a duster over the surfaces, tinkering with a short story he’s struggling to

When Marty met George

Daniel Finkelstein

I am glad that Scorsese made it. It’s just that, well, I was hoping...

An Advertisement for Myself

Nick Cohen

My You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom is out this week. As the title says, it's about freedom of speech, a subject

Menace, mystery and decadence

Richard Davenport-Hines

It is fitting that Charles Dickens’s bicentenary coincides with Lawrence Durrell’s centenary, for the two novelists have crucial resemblances: both of them are triumphant in the intensity and power of

An ideal Christmas

Andrew Lambirth

Christmas approaches, and my thoughts turn, with reassuring inevitability, to Dickens. As the nights draw in and the winter winds blast across the fields of East Anglia, the counter-urge is