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An editor and writer for the Investors' Chronicle at the Financial Times.

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Why is Glasgow trashing its architectural heritage?

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By Christopher Akers Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
It’s a big summer for Glasgow. Fresh from twinning with Boston after the Tartan Army’s World Cup antics entranced the Americans, Scotland’s metropolis is now welcoming visitors for the Commonwealth Games. Those in town for the week and a half will find a city of underrated beauty – but one which seems strangely determined to let its impressive Victorian and Edwardian heritage crumble.
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Death, schism and conspiracy: Orkney’s renegade Catholic monks

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By Christopher Akers Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
A tiny island in the Orkneys. A renegade group of Catholic monks who have rejected every Pope since the 1960s. The planned illicit consecration of a bishop. The clandestine departure of three monks. And a mysterious death beneath the waves of the North Sea.
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The Panic of 1873 seems eerily familiar

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By Christopher Akers Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
1873: The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World Hutchinson Heinemann, pp.352, 25 On 18 September 1873, the leading American bank Jay Cooke & Co collapsed after a disastrous bet on the railroad boom. Like the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008, it was a watershed moment in an unfolding global financial crisis.
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