Gently sceptical thoughts on investment and the wider world of finance – see my Medium publication The Patient Investor for more.

The Economics of Oil and Gas
- 1st September 2020
A review of a new book providing a helpful reference guide to the complex economics of the hydrocarbons sector

Boreholes, bottles and black alders: what will be left of us a million years from now
- 26th July 2020
What traces of our energy infrastructure will be discernable in the far future? – a review of David Farrier’s Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils

‘Mesmerising worlds of gears, springs, wheels and ratchets’: a cultural history of engineering
- 26th July 2020
An informative history of engineering by oil executive turned writer John Browne pays too little attention to the discipline’s political dimension

Go Invest Green: how we can make our savings work for a sustainable world
- 20th July 2020
An introduction to the power of finance to fund a sustainable economic system, and an invitation to join the Go Invest Green initiative offering guidance on switching to a green pension