Jonty Bloom
24 November 2022
The end of the road
Ex-Defra secretary George Eustice has admitted that post-EU trade deals are a disaster for our farmers. But agriculture’s problems don’t end there
Read the full article17 November 2022
Hospitality’s hospital pass
The government’s Brexit policy has devastated the sector – and opened up a £7bn black hole in public finances
Read the full article09 November 2022
The Brexit double fault
'Wimbledonisation' helped the City of London become Europe’s financial capital. But leaving the EU has been much less of an advantage
Read the full article02 November 2022
The spanner in our works
UK manufacturing is reeling from a double whammy of Brexit idiocy, and the future looks scary
Read the full article26 October 2022
A damned spot of bother
The Northern Ireland Protocol points the way to a better Brexit – so, Macbeth-style, Sunak is being urged to kill it
Read the full article18 October 2022
One word led us here… Brexit
The collapse of Liz Truss’s authority is the logical conclusion of the anti-EU cult that has wrecked Britain’s economy over the last six years
Read the full article13 October 2022
The pointless war on GDPR
Changing the current system will be disruptive, time-consuming, expensive and counterproductive
Read the full article04 October 2022
The Kwarteng cuts are still coming
The tottering Truss regime is facing a new rebellion over planned cuts to public spending - but they are inevitable to pay for its lower tax plans
Read the full article23 September 2022
Kwarteng’s gamble is doomed: This is trickle-down Tory economics at its most brutal and risky
Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have turned Britain into a giant experiment to test out the riskiest of trickle-down fantasies
Read the full article22 September 2022
Britannia Unhinged
Many of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans are detailed in an economically illiterate pamphlet they published 10 years ago this month
Read the full article15 September 2022
Tennessee Williams and a pound no one desires
What the US playwright can teach us about Britain’s falling currency and fading international reputation
Read the full article08 September 2022
It’s Little Britain, the sequel
Liz Truss looks set to follow in the footsteps of her predecessor and play to the crowd rather than take her responsibilities seriously
Read the full article29 August 2022
Here lies Boris Johnson… and lies, and lies, and lies
Any political obituary of the disgraced soon-to-be ex-PM has to start with his inability to tell the truth
Read the full article25 August 2022
Britain’s phoney war on red tape
Liz Truss is promising a bonfire of rules and regulations. But every other prime minister has tried that and failed – for good reason
Read the full article13 August 2022
The trade figures are a disaster for Brexiteers – and for Britain
The world’s advanced economies are coming back to life after Covid... with a notable exception
Read the full article10 August 2022
Liz Truss’s tragic money tree
When it comes to the economy, the Tory frontrunner is taking the worst possible advice from the worst possible advisers
Read the full article04 August 2022
Think the queues at Dover are bad? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Travellers have suffered through long delays on the M20 heading into the port. But even more red tape is on the way
Read the full article28 July 2022
After the clown ..the clone
Liz Truss’s promises are as empty, illogical and deceitful as Boris Johnson’s. No wonder she’s favourite to win the Tory leadership
Read the full article14 July 2022
The Northern Ireland Protocol is working. Naturally, the UK government is trying to destroy it
What will Boris Johnson’s departure mean for the Northern Ireland Protocol and the government’s plans to rewrite it?
Read the full article07 July 2022
Why the airline industry is about to ruin your summer holiday… and it’s not just Brexit
Leaving the EU has deepened this crisis – but its root cause is the sector’s shabby treatment of its staff
Read the full article30 June 2022
Britain’s self-harm recession
The pandemic and Ukraine have left the world’s finances on the brink. But predictions for Britain are worse than most. Why?
Read the full article23 June 2022
Is Norway the way back?
Some Brexiteers are starting to look wistfully at the Scandinavian nation’s easier relationship with the EU. But it is right for Britain?
Read the full article15 June 2022
The benefits of Brexit are petty, pathetic and pitiful
Jacob Rees-Mogg has published a list of nine ‘Brexit opportunities’. It’s both pitiful and dangerous
Read the full article09 June 2022
We’re running towards a recession
This government’s obsessions with Brexit and cuts in taxes and spending will make the coming slump worse
Read the full article02 June 2022
The UK car industry is on the road to nowhere
No Single Market access and a struggle to develop EV batteries mean an uncertain future for the once-great British car industry
Read the full article26 May 2022
In the leper lane: a summer of blue skies and red tape
Heading to Europe for your first post-pandemic summer holiday? Thanks to Brexit, your sun, sea and sand now come with added queues, forms and red tape
Read the full article19 May 2022
The bandwidth bandit
The government is paralysed by having to prop up its own failed pet policy
Read the full article12 May 2022
The inflation nation
Energy and fuel are global drivers of rising prices. But unlike our EU rivals, Brexit is making matters far worse in Britain
Read the full article05 May 2022
The curse of Margaret Thatcher
The Conservatives’ ongoing economic incoherence is a poisonous legacy of their Iron Lady obsession
Read the full article21 April 2022
The UK’s industrial disease
Low investment, poor skills and bad managers leave Britain trailing its business rivals – but what are the chances of fixing these flaws?
Read the full article20 April 2022
The figures don’t lie, Brexit is causing a disastrous collapse in trade
The UK government has made exporting and importing difficult and costly. Everybody who was not a Brexit fantasist saw it coming
Read the full article31 March 2022
Has Britain had enough of exports?
Those who talk up a German-style economic miracle after Brexit are being economical with the truth
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