Trade

Brexit: How about a British-style agreement?

June 13, 2021 3:46 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

I regret to inform you that the Twitter bubble is at it again. The Brexit chatterati of Twitter are tossing... View Article

Brexit Britain needs a new Green Party

June 7, 2021 1:53 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Britain doesn’t have a Green party. There is a bandwagon-hopping wokey cult that has appropriated the name, but the slot... View Article

British trade debate is in need of modernisation

June 7, 2021 1:55 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

There’s a couple of Brexity economists on Twitter whose stuff I read and I often wonder if the come from... View Article

UK aid needs fundamental reform and a coherent mission

June 4, 2021 3:21 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Thirty Tory rebels, including former prime minister Theresa May, have now promised to back a bid to increase aid spending... View Article

Immigration: the great British hypocrisy

June 3, 2021 10:09 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

There is a strange disconnect in Brexit debates between theory and reality. We had this just recently with remainers wailing... View Article

Brexit: the trade scaremongering begins

June 1, 2021 6:36 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Most of the trade debate in British media is agenda driven noisy scaremongering. It goes with the territory. Back when... View Article

Remainers are the new left (and that’s a good thing)

May 27, 2021 1:09 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

When I was a kid I was only dimly aware of the political left. I only really noticed them as... View Article

Why an Aussie FTA (probably) doesn’t matter

May 20, 2021 3:21 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

In principle there is reason to worry about an FTA which removes protections for British livestock rearing. Free traders argue... View Article

Weed legalisation has gone all to pot

May 6, 2021 12:33 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Yesterday I watched a Netflix documentary called Murder Mountain. It takes a detailed look at the marijuana industry in Northern... View Article

Trade: no clear picture yet

May 4, 2021 12:24 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

If you only read the Express, Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Spiked you’d be convinced that Brexit was a non-event as... View Article

Brexit Britain’s toxic waste dilemma

April 20, 2021 6:05 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

The problem with a vast consumer economy is the question of what to do with gargantuan volumes of waste. This... View Article

Brexit: on the move

March 30, 2021 1:17 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In 1956, when Col. Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal, Britain felt its interests where so badly threatened that it conspired... View Article

Brexit: taking it seriously

March 29, 2021 2:12 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Far more illustrative than the acres of (largely ill-informed or out-of-date) media copy was a short film published late yesterday evening by... View Article

Brexit: lessons unlearned

March 28, 2021 3:07 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

One interesting thing about the Ever Given incident and like events is that, as they progress, similar examples are very often brought... View Article