Erik Nielsen

One day the world's top-rated chess player Magnus Carlsen will sit down and write about his games. This is what the great players do, but not yet. At 21, he is too young to be distracted by that on the way to become the world champion. Energy should go into playing the games, not writing about them. Eventually, he will select his best games and say what needs to be said. It will be his legacy. The late Bobby Fischer, who would have been 70 on March 9, published his only book, My ...

SUSPICION of British economic policy is mounting. Recent posts (here and here, for example) have highlighted my view that things are in a mess; the economy is flat and the government is missing its deficit target, even with the help of dubious accounting; inflation is above target and set to remain so, yet the Bank of England seems likely to ease further; sterling is the weakest major currency this year and the previous depreciation did little to help the trade deficit. Other commentators a...