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 [...]
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 [...]
By Brian Monteith – 4 minutes read WE REALLY DO live in a world that has turned logic upside down and are living through the other side of the looking glass (the proper British term for a mirror- Ed). We have just had the financial markets pressurising the UK Government to put up taxes – [...]
