BBC Newsnight Economics Editor. Writer, Broadcaster, Public Speaker
I'll be blogging in the run-up to the G8 summit at Gleneagles, giving my personal take on the issues, people and events.
Also authoring on this site are:
Martha Kearney, Political Editor
Stephanie Flanders, Economics Editor
Susan Watts, Science Editor
Anita Rice, Newsnight's Online Editor
It will all be rigorously checked for impartiality, fairness and balance by eaqle-eyed BBC editors - so if you've any complaints fire them straight at us.
For now we've disabled the comments function: it was either that or place a CPR team on permanent standby near BBC management's offices. To have your say please go to the moderated discussion part of the Newsnight website.
Email us direct with your views, news and above all scoops. We'll be posting words and pictures here from both sides of the Gleneagles fence from 6 June.
I'm the economics editor of BBC Newsnight, the corporation's nightly current affairs programme, at 2230 GMT, BBC TWO. In this blog I am centralising reviews, interviews, links and events related to my two new books: "Rare Earth" - a novel about China and "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere" - a book about the technological and social factors behind the protests of 2011