Oliver Kamm

London

Writer at The Times

Journalist, author & linguist. Writer for @thetimes. Rep’d by @JanklowUK.

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Articles

Britain must steel itself for the painful fallout of Trump's trade tariffs

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Oliver Kamm
Forcing pensions to invest in UK assets is a terrible idea

Nov 19, 2024 | thetimes.com | Oliver Kamm

‘Everybody knows you’re not supposed to put all your eggs in one basket.” This observation was made by Harry Markowitz, a Nobel economics laureate. It very roughly describes his great intellectual contribution to financial theory. By holding a portfolio of assets whose price movements are only imperfectly correlated, investors can reduce risk without sacrificing returns.
Very Bad Government

May 3, 2024 | quillette.com | John Lloyd |Jeffrey Herf |Oliver Kamm |Hira JungKow

It is not uncommon to hear Britain referred to as England in casual conversation, and not without reason—England holds more than 80 percent of the island’s population; London is the seat of government and one of the world’s largest finance centres; the Bank of England is the Bank of Britain (so to speak); the BBC has most of its operations in England; the Royal family’s main home is at London’s Buckingham Palace.
Springtime for Sinwar

May 2, 2024 | quillette.com | Jeffrey Herf |Oliver Kamm |Hira JungKow |Alexander Blum

On the evening of 29 April 2023, demonstrators occupied Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, barricaded themselves inside, and refused to move until Columbia agreed to divest its endowment funds from Israel. published by the Free Press shows a masked person using a hammer to smash the glass in the building’s doors, before using what appears to be a bike lock to secure them. Other masked protesters build a makeshift barricade out of chairs.
The Paranoid Style in Shakespeare Denialism

May 1, 2024 | quillette.com | Oliver Kamm

The historian Sir Lewis Namier is rarely read these days yet one of his insights perfectly encapsulates the methods of his discipline. “The crowning attainment of historical study,” he maintained, is to achieve “an intuitive sense of how things do not happen.” These words were quoted by Richard Hofstadter in his classic essay (and my source for this quote) “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” as a warning against conspiratorial fantasists who lack such an understanding.
John Pilger was an apologist for genocide - we should not celebrate his journalism

Jan 5, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Oliver Kamm

Pilger was a polemicist who went out looking for what he wanted to find Credit: REUTERS/Neil Hall “I admired the force of his writing, even when I often didn’t support what he wrote, and he was always warm when we met.” So wrote John Simpson, the veteran BBC foreign affairs correspondent, on news of the death of the campaigning journalist John Pilger on December 30 at the age of 84. Those who know of Pilger’s work only in recent years and from the obscure far-Left websites that published it...
John Pilger was an apologist for genocide – we should not celebrate his journalism

Jan 5, 2024 | msn.com | Oliver Kamm

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Christian reaction to October 7 has been muddled thinking

Jan 4, 2024 | thejc.com | Oliver Kamm

In an unprecedented emergency for Israel, this truth bears stressing: “The simple fact is that all schemes for political appeasement and economic cooperation must fail unless there is an unequivocal voice from us that we will not allow the state to be annihilated and that we will not judge its desperate efforts to gain some strategic security… as an illegitimate use of force.” These words were written not in recent weeks but in 1957, in the US magazine The New Republic, by Reinhold Niebuhr,...
John Pilger was a charlatan and a fraudster

Jan 3, 2024 | capx.co | Oliver Kamm

His plagiarised defence of Milosevic represented the nadir of his career Throughout his life, the celebrated journalist concealed facts and said things he knew to be untrue Sympathy for the dead does not necessitate sentimentality about deceit and indifference to human suffering ‘I admired the force of his writing, even when I often didn’t support what he wrote, and he was always warm when we met.’ So wrote John Simpson, the veteran BBC foreign affairs correspondent, on news of the death of...
King should rid himself of this quack homeopath

Dec 11, 2023 | thetimes.co.uk | Oliver Kamm

I once interviewed Lord Rees of Ludlow, the astronomer royal, for this newspaper. It didn’t occur to me to ask whether he agrees with the Ancient Greek mathematician Ptolemy that the Earth is the non-orbiting centre of the universe, or with the American rapper B.o.B that it’s flat. Had I done so, I fear his natural politeness might have failed him.