Here's some stuff I have read or listened to lately that I found interesting. Climate change Author Kim Stanley Robinson on 'a plan for a world in flames' . I read his novel The Ministry of the Future at Christmas last year. Although I enjoyed it I was a bit disappointed that it didn't feature much of the epic planetary engineering tha...

I've been thinking about electric vehicles a lot this week. On Sunday I watched the exciting Formula E race from the Excel Centre in London. The next day I had to drop my (petrol) car off for a minor repair, and had an Uber ride home in an electric Nissan Leaf. The driver told me that he worked five days a week and his charging costs w...

When you invest money it is important to understand the time period over which you are hoping for a return. Some funds like ARK's wildly popular Disruptive Innovation ETF are based on long term 'megatrends' like the adoption of electric or autonomous vehicles. As their director of research explained in a recent edition of the Bloomberg...

UK markets have underperformed for a long time, and dramatically so over the past year. But why is this? Has the time now come to look again at British shares? One factor is the self-inflicted wound of Brexit. Share prices in London rose steeply in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 referendum vote because the value of the pound fell ...