Jonty Bloom
22 February 2023
Think the tomato shortages are bad? You ain’t seen nothing yet
A food industry expert warns that parts of the food chain may collapse when Brexit checks come in later this year
Read the full article22 February 2023
Was Liz Truss a genius after all?
The short-lived PM’s new big idea sounds suspiciously familiar…
Read the full article22 February 2023
Are we the new Italy?
Our economy is suffering the same problems of low growth and poor productivity experienced by our Italian neighbour
Read the full article21 February 2023
Boris Johnson doesn’t care about Northern Ireland… only himself
The ex-PM’s Protocol intervention once again shows that it’s all about him
Read the full article16 February 2023
Britain’s creative block
From Shaun the Sheep to Grand Theft Auto, Brexit is choking the arts, and the government is doing nothing about it
Read the full article15 February 2023
Sunak’s pretence that Brexit bad news isn’t real will damage our economy even further
New figures put the cost at £1,000 of leaving the EU at per household per year
Read the full article14 February 2023
Bad science: Michelle Donelan’s laughable Brexit posturing over Horizon
Britain is on the verge of regaining access to the EU-led research budget - so why pretend we can credibly go it alone?
Read the full article09 February 2023
The tragic money tree
What happened to all Britain’s cash? The answer is that right wing economics have failed Britain – again
Read the full article08 February 2023
The brazen con of Kemi Badenoch’s post-Brexit trade partnership with Italy
The government hail it as “momentous” - it’s just a simple memo with no extra money or cut in tariffs
Read the full article06 February 2023
Brexit compromise on the Northern Ireland Protocol spells danger for Sunak
Sensible changes agreed with the EU will only put Johnson and the ERG back on manoeuvres
Read the full article02 February 2023
Brexit’s flat battery
The unsurprising collapse of Britishvolt, and the total lack of strategy or investment in batteries, will be the final nail in the coffin for the car industry
Read the full article26 January 2023
Brexodus: Where have all the workers gone?
The consequences of ending the free movement of people between Britain and the EU are becoming painfully clear
Read the full article18 January 2023
Brexit has only cost us and the worst is yet to come
The OBR forecast that Brexit would cost the UK economy 4% of GDP now looks ridiculously optimistic as the damage mounts
Read the full article12 January 2023
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Brexit was supposed to save the UK’s fishing industry. Instead, it has made its plight even worse
Read the full article05 January 2023
Happy new year… the worst is yet to come
We’re in a recession, energy bills are due to rise again and the timebomb of an ageing population ticks on. But Britain continues to live in a fantasy
Read the full article15 December 2022
Brexomertà: what they won’t say about our national disaster
Britain can no longer avoid the blindingly obvious. But our leaders seem intent on doing so
Read the full article08 December 2022
Out of service
Bands, lawyers and architects are all suffering as Brexit damages a sector that makes up 80% of the UK economy
Read the full article01 December 2022
Banging your head against a wall
Brexit has damaged British construction through a self-inflicted skills shortage and higher prices for imported raw materials
Read the full article24 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
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