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 – [...]
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 [...]
By Catherine McBride – 8 minute read THE CHANCELLOR’S mini-budget was both encouraging and disappointing. First, the good news. The Chancellor announced most of the things that Liz Truss had promised to do during her election campaign. This is a welcome surprise, for many years now despite having voted for Conservative Governments - smaller government [...]
