Columns – The Mint Magazine

The power of pluck

Henry Leveson-Gower — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:56:20 +0000

When David fought Goliath, what if the big guy was just ill-equipped and poorly trained? Frances Coppola reflects. As I mulled over what I was going to write for this …

Neither credible nor edible

Henry Leveson-Gower — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:39:56 +0000

The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, a key international authority, published its latest report in October 2025. Its conclusions were damning: “More than half of the world’s …

WI Oh WI

Henry Leveson-Gower — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:45:12 +0000

When home-cooked turkey roasted Reformed chicken. I’ve developed a whole new respect for the WI. I’ll never unsee its indestructible president, Virginia Austen, using her WI pinny like a matador’s …

Commoning against collapse

Henry Leveson-Gower — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 11:29:08 +0000

On 7th December 1972, Harrison Schmitt took an image of the Earth from Apollo 17 on its way to the Moon that has become one of the most reproduced images …

Fences around the picnic

Henry Leveson-Gower — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:27:39 +0000

Our regular columnist, Verity, is attending an international conference, so we are pleased to welcome back Miss Ettie Kett, expert in modern manners, whose new book, ‘Thank You, please’, will …

From Reserves to Repression

Henry Leveson-Gower — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:20:53 +0000

Frances Coppola examines how a biblical tale of famine, taxation, and power reveals the roots of economic shock tactics and the perilous slide into repression. Forget economic textbooks. Religion is …

Bread line not the cashline

Henry Leveson-Gower — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:47:22 +0000

Food for thought on Gaza’s runaway inflation from Frances Coppola. Inflation, we are told, is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”: too much money chasing too few goods. Allowing the …

Trump trade wars

Henry Leveson-Gower — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:20:18 +0000

In a White House Rose Garden address on April 2, 2025, Trump declared that April 2 was “Liberation Day”, describing the announcement as “one of the most important days in American …

The harder they come

Henry Leveson-Gower — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:39:24 +0000

A Jamaican herbal brew holds promise for the good Professor’s errant entrepreneur friend. Last week, I was somewhat startled by Prinz Charlz, our local herbal entrepreneur, knocking at my window. …

Trump’s card – what’s up the global sleeve?

Henry Leveson-Gower — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:45:15 +0000

The president has a plan to make the world pay the US protection money. Frances Coppola explains. Tariff Man is back. And he’s on a mission. President Trump wants to …