ECONOMIC COMPARISONS are not penalty shoot-outs, but the moment male economists hear the words UK and Germany, they seem to lose the ability to step
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
(If you missed Part One before Friday’s mini-budget, go here first.) ONE OF THE BEST THINGS about the Chancellor’s speech is that it did most
THE MEDIA has moved on from the Conservative leadership election and Royal funeral and has now started to worry about the falling pound – but
WHILE MOST PEOPLE are worried about coming shortages: fuel, food and even water, there are still some members of the Twitter fraternity worried about surpluses.
AS I READ yet another attempt to demonise New Zealand farmers over the tiny meat quota given to them in the recent Free Trade Agreement – equal
IT IS THAT TIME of year again when everyone is suggesting reasons for tax cuts or tax rises in Wednesday’s budget. I would like to
GAS PRICES are spiking although the UK is sitting on massive shale gas reserves that could make the UK energy self-sufficient – but we’ve banned
I WAS SURPRISED at the weekend to read that Australia was pressuring the UK to exclude ‘binding commitments’ to the Paris Climate Change Agreement from
MOST PEOPLE probably don’t realise New Zealand has a similar land mass to the UK – NZ is the 75th largest country in the world, just
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION recently announced that the EU will be allowing farmers to feed farm animals food known as Processed Animal Protein (PAP) made from
DESPITE the limited tariff-free quotas given to Australian beef and sheep meat imports, the National Farmers Union (NFU) is still complaining. But despite the all