What if the post-Covid euphoria is already over as the reality of another long summer at home dawns on us?
Monday, March 22nd, 2021I think I have said this before, but I am going to say it again anyway. That is because some things are worth repeating. Others
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That interview makes it clear that time for constitutional reform has arrived
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021Can I avoid the topic of the moment? I fear not. I watched over an hour of the Megan and Harry interview last night. And
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Brexit is not a done deal as yet
Thursday, March 4th, 2021The Guardian reports this morning that: The British government has been accused of breaking international law for a second time by the European commission after
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The national debt paranoia
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021It felt like the morning for a Twitter thread on the national debt. I just published this: We have just had another week when the
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It would seem that Green Bonds are in vogue - but we have to get them right
Sunday, February 28th, 2021According to the Sunday Times this is going to happen in the budget: I suspect that the figures are so precise that this is a
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The right-wing want a Nothern Bang but their proposals look like a Northern Whimper
Tuesday, February 16th, 2021Margaret Thatcher’s favourite think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, has published a new report suggesting what they call a Northern Bang – aimed at the
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The post-Brexit question has to cease to be ‘what have we done?’ and become instead ‘what can we do about it?’
Thursday, February 11th, 2021A tweet from Robert Peston refers to one of the more rapid consequences of Brexit, after the demise of the UK shellfish industry, that is: This
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Ten reasons why freeports are a bad idea
Friday, February 5th, 2021I was asked yesterday if I might be available to discuss freeports on the media and what my ‘top lines’ would be if I did.
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The LSE report on the increased costs in trade for an independent Scotland is based on unsubstantiated data and absurd assumptions
Thursday, February 4th, 2021I have tried hard to take seriously the new report from the LSE on the costs of Scottish independence, as measured through the supposed impediments
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