Growth appears to be slowing. Government borrowing is up. There are mixed signals coming from the government about almost everything. There appears to be a softening on Brexit. Meanwhile the EU’s trading position grows stronger with free trade deals with Canada and Japan and soon with Australia and new Zealand. So the market we are trying […]
Not Russia. Not China. Not IS. Not even North Korea. No, Washington itself has become America’s worst enemy. The country has elected a President whom some love and others hate. He won because he spoke to millions of Americans whom the political class had forgotten. He has some good ideas some bad ones. He is […]
After she lost her majority, this Blog proclaimed on several occasions that May was toast. By conventional rules of competent government she was and is. A string of mis-judgments since the election disaster and a continued zombie one liners to explain policy which is controversial, increases the feeling that she is, as described by Osborne, […]
We have had good and not so good governments. Mostly it depends on your politics as to the judgment you apply. But now it cannot matter what your politics are, it is plain for all to see the this government is dysfunctional. The party in office is split on Brexit and Austerity, it is still […]
The World Oder is not changing in some big convulsion, but it is changing bit by bit. Much of it could be for the better, but as yet we cannot tell where it will end up, so we cannot arrive at an informed conclusion. America remains the biggest economy, the most technologically advanced and the […]
The government is to publish the Bill which will incorporate EU Law into British Law, to come into effect as we leave the EU. This will enable future governments to adjust and amend laws and regulations to better suit the UK’s individual needs outside the EU. That is the theory. Now for the practice. At […]