It’s a little-known fact that John Maynard Keynes was dosed up on mind-altering drugs when he carried out one of the most important economic negotiations in British history. The ageing economist was suffering from heart disease when he was sent away to secure Britain’s post-war loan with the Americans. After a series of heart attacks over the previous years, his doctor Janos Plesch, a Hungarian whose remedies were so bizarre and occasionally gruesome Keynes and his wife Lydia had nicknamed him The Ogre, was seeking out new ways to keep him going. There had been opium pills, weird experimental drugs from Germany, ... (full story)