IT IS THE HEIGHT OF ABSURDITY that the UK Government argues that joining the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme will protect the UK’s exports – when
THIS MAY SEEM a bit obvious but sometimes one needs to go back to basics such is the nature of the discourse of the ruling
Here is a selection of charts designed to challenge some of the shakier claims about the economic impacts of Brexit, including on the pound, investment,
First published on 22 March 2021 WHEN WRITING about the ongoing saga in Bute House it is difficult to know when and where to begin.
The Bank of England Governor ought to understand this. NOT SO LONG AGO, the head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said of EU financial
HEADLINES from recent opinion polls suggest that a majority of Brits now want to reverse Brexit. But a deeper dive shows that this support is
A cut-out-and-keep summary of the claims most commonly made about the harm that Brexit has supposedly done to UK GDP, their sources, their methodology and
The claim that Brexit has already shrunk the UK economy by “as much as 8 per cent” is based on flawed analysis and should not
POLITICALLY, the UK has been moving toward the dismantling of its hydrocarbon extractive industries for many decades. Almost all post-war UK governments, including those of
TOGETHER with David Turver and Brian Monteith, I recently published a paper – Premeditated industrial destruction; How the UK destroyed its industry and a plan
IN THE EARLY 1900s my grandfather in Govanhill, a schoolteacher, knew many locals spent more than half of any income on food. The choice of
AFTER NEARLY two decades in power, the record of the Scottish National Party is no longer a matter of promise, but of performance. And for