Richard Morris

I've been to Cannes five times. Once by accident. It's never quite felt right - until now. The first time I went to Cannes, I was 16.

At its meeting on 24 July 2025, the Governing Council decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. Inflation is currently at the 2% medium-term target. The incoming information is broadly in line with the Governing Council's previous assessment of the inflation outlook. Domestic price pressures have continued to ease, with wages growing more slowly. Partly reflecting the Governing Council's past interest rate cuts, the economy has so far proven resilient overall in a challenging global environment. At the same time, the environment remains exceptionally uncertain, especially because of trade disputes.

I do not, if I can help it, catch a train to anywhere on a Sunday. Yet there I was at 9.14 a.m. heading out from Woodbridge in Suffolk towards Cambridge to view a painting by Walter Sickert, a work I had not seen before and whose vital statistics – what even the work was

A few weeks ago I went along to a lecture on the Welsh artist, poet and soldier David Jones. Kenneth Clark considered him ‘the most gifted of all the young British painters’. The talk, by a recent art-history graduate with a first-class degree from a reputable university, began at a cracking pace. It was only

Richard Morris - Technology reporter Anthropic says it is looking to resolve an issue which is blocking users of its AI coding tool.

Trekking to the Terriers. Reading are aiming to record back-to-back wins and cement their place in the League One play-offs as we head to Huddersfield Town.

The idea does sound plausible because AI systems process text incrementally

Prepared by Niccolò Battistini, Johannes Gareis and Richard Morris Dispersion in euro area real GDP growth has declined recently and is relatively low by historical standards.

At its meeting on 30 April 2026, the Governing Council decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. While the incoming information has been broadly consistent with its previous assessment of the inflation outlook, the upside risks to inflation and the downside risks to growth have intensified. The Governing Council is committed to setting monetary policy to ensure that inflation stabilises at the 2% target in the medium term.

The Benedictine monastery of St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth near Guildford is making an unusual appeal for donations of surplus garden plants after one of its new novice monks expressed a desire to continue developing areas of the monastery grounds.