By Bob Lyddon – 4 minute read THE BANK of England’s project – or is it Rishi Sunak’s? – to create a UK-cryptocurrency called Britcoin is controlled by the digital payment industry. True to form it promises to impose on the UK yet more failed tools and techniques from the EU: not surprising since the project committees [...]
By Catherine McBride – 4 minute read LET’S TALK about Switzerland. First, let us remember, but it needs restating, the UK population voted to leave the EU. They voted to take back control of their laws, their money, and their borders. This is unlike Switzerland’s relationship with the EU, where it has to accept European Court [...]
By Catherine McBride – 4 minute read AS MUCH AS I don’t want to give George Eustice’s comments about the Australian trade deal any more publicity, he did seem to be looking at the deal from a very narrow perspective – his own perhaps? On the question of whether Eustice was lying to the House [...]
By Catherine McBride – 6 minute read IT HAS BEEN amusing to watch Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics, Kings College London, hammering Mark Carney, now head of ESG investing at Brookfield Asset Management, for his inaccurate remark made during a Financial Times (FT) interview comparing UK and German GDPs since 2016. It was disingenuous for theformer Governor of the Bank of [...]
By Catherine McBride – 4 minute read IT WOULD APPEAR that everything is being blamed on Liz Truss. According to The Independent “There is little prospect of a post-Brexit trade deal with Brazil in the near future because of strained relations between Britain’s Conservative Government and the new administration of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.” But read a bit further [...]
