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Is the prime minister stupid – or does he really know what he's doing?
They know fine well their plans are economically illiterate but they are not valuing that as relevant to their policy objectives"…
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Commentary, analysis, and opinion on Brexit, British sovereignty, and global trade.
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There’s nothing fertile about Burnham’s supine loyalty to the EU
It is inexplicable that the EU and the UK would consider increasing the cost of imported ammonia when neither of them still makes…
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Trump’s sovereignty game
At the United Nations, Trump noticed the noun rather than the adjective and laid out a foreign policy built on recovering the leve…
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What Britain can learn from Giorgia Meloni's successes, failures and unfinished revolution
British politicians and commentators are right to study Meloni, provided the failures are studied as closely as the successes. The…
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On the hook: how Starmer made the UK liable for €21bn of EU "loans" to Ukraine
‘The Brexit Years Are Over’: Starmer’s Ukraine loan scheme makes UK taxpayers backstop the obligations of Italy and Spain et al in…
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How the EU reset fails Burnham's ‘Makerfield Test’
Burnham pledged a “Makerfield test at the heart of British politics,” his “touchstone” by which all his policy decisions and propo…
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If devolution is the answer why has it not saved the UK’s world class oil and gas industry?
Burnham’s devo schtick is an irrelevant feel good pitch about bringing decision making “closer” – when competence and clear critic…
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The end of a premiership built on ideology, identity and delusion
The tragedy of Keir Starmer is not that he failed. It is that he reached the end still unable to distinguish between his own preju…
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Brexit at ten: Britain didn't fail – its political class did
The tragedy of Brexit is not that Britain left the EU. It is that successive governments lacked the nerve, imagination and discipl…