The trouble with paying too much attention to social media is that one risks becoming brainwashed with the drivel that passes for discourse on many social media channels.

The British PM is right to think that suspending parliament has made a Brexit deal more likely. But the backlash could have serious consequences, writes Anatole Kaletsky.

Greta’s urgency is about the survival of our species and is informed by hard scientific research carried out on behalf of the common good. Boris’s urgency is driven by ego and the egg on his and his party’s face, writes Joyce Fegan.

Most of the major currencies have remained quite range bound in the past few months.

Sterling tumbled against the dollar and slid to a six-month low of under 90 pence against the euro as fears over a Halloween exit for Britain from the EU haunted investors.