British politics imploding: Tory chorus of unhinged a real threat

Any citizen of the world with a reasonably alert sense of foreboding could not consider the fall in share values, at a six-year record in some cases, in American, European or Asian markets as anything other than worrying.

The all-too-familiar, all-too-regular destruction of wealth has been triggered by investor concern that this era of cheap money has run its course and that we face renewed inflationary pressures.