I wrote this in July, but since Freeports are supposedly to be one of the big advantages of Brexit (even though they are possible within
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Procurement sounds almost as exciting as accounting to most people. And as a chartered accountant I am certain that people are wrong about the importance
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This post began life as a Twitter thread. It builds on a post made here, yesterday. Some added charts and links have been included. —–
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I have for a very long time believed that the government’s real desire is a no deal Brexit, but they felt unable to say it.
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I suppose I should praise Boris Johnson for announcing what he calls a Green Industrial Revolution’ in the FT this morning, but I find it
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The British Medical Journal had an editorial last week that pulled no punches. It began by saying: Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do
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I suspect many readers of this blog are not readers of the Sunday Times. Nor am I. I do not have a subscription. But it
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I think this from Simon Wren-Lewis, written yesterday, is very good: [The suggestion is] that Sunak, like Osborne, only pretends to misunderstand the nature of
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Need I say more than this? I defined the suppliers of corruption services way back in 2007 as: 1. Those governments who supply the secrecy
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