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17 11, 2022

We face the greatest crisis of our lives; Hunt’s Autumn Statement makes it worse

As We See It, Trade & Economy|

By Ewen Stewart – 7 minute read WE FACE A CRISIS born out of serial material errors over many years and short-term fixes designed to kick the can down the road. Today’s Autumn Statement compounds the error. It not only raises taxes to an unprecedented peace time level but it fails utterly to address the [...]

21 10, 2022

EU targeting of Palm Oil is protectionism dressed up as virtue signalling

As We See It, Trade & Economy|

By Brian Monteith – 5 minute read EARLIER THIS YEAR the European Commission proposed a new law to halt deforestation and minimise the EU’s impact on forests worldwide. Its aim was to prevent beef, palm oil and other products linked to deforestation from being sold in the EU single market of 446 million consumers. But [...]

15 10, 2022

We have reached an economic turning point that compounds the error

As We See It, Brexit-Watch, Trade & Economy|

By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read THE LAST two weeks, since Kwasi Kwarteng’s now infamous budget, have perhaps been the most extraordinary in modern British political recollection.  Truss and Kwarteng condemned, with almost religious like certainty, from a whole host of commentators from the IMF to Germany’s finance minister, from the usual suspects like the [...]

1 08, 2022

How EU protectionism damages our environment

As We See It, Trade & Economy|

By Brian Monteith – 4 minute read UNTIL our government changes its mindset to do things differently from the EU we shall continue lazily to adopt its norms irrespective of whether or not they are appropriate to us. You probably did not know that last year the European Commission proposed a new law to halt [...]

23 06, 2022

How free trade is attacked by protectionist lobbyists using ‘environmentalism’ as cover

As We See It, Trade & Economy|

By Brian Monteith – 6 minute read HERE WE GO AGAIN! Another attempt to demonise Palm oil and save the world. This time it’s a rather unsubtle and loose article in The Mirror suggesting Palm oil causes cancer. It’s nonsense, of course, but a lack of credible evidence never stopped lobbyists and activists from creating [...]

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