Alex Story

Alex Story lives in Salzburg and is a senior manager at a City brokerage, where he works closely with hedge funds and other financial institutions. A rower, he represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games and won the Boat Race for Cambridge on two occasions. His team still holds the course record. @alexpstory

Still weighed down by fear

Austria shows Europe is not yet free and reminds us we must remain vigilant too “You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life”, Rhodes is recorded as saying to Lord Grey in the ‘good old days’ when Britannia ruled the waves.  WITH INFLATION going through the roof, …

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Trudeau’s Emergencies Act reappraised – how the Canadian Maple fell without a sound

What happened in Canada earlier this year has been almost forgotten in the light of the war in Ukraine. Yet Justin Trudeau’s response to the truckers’ protest shocked the world. As Alex Story argues here, it is a reminder about the fragility of Western democratic values and is too troubling to ignore. Let it be …

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