I wrote quite a number of tweets yesterday whilst watching the various press conferences that closed the G7 summit. The most popular was this: I
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How long for Boris Johnson?
I have been intrigued, and also amused, by the reaction to Boris Johnson over the weekend. Take this from Beth Rigby of Sky News yesterday:
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How long will it be before reversing Brexit becomes an acceptable topic for political debate?
This is the Telegraph’s business page today: This is the start of the story on Tim Martin, the boss of Wetherspoons: Tim Martin was a
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Where is the UK government on Biden’s tax plan? Is Johnson intending to come out as the friend of tax havens?
I wrote about the Biden tax plan last week. I mentioned that it might raise an estimated £13.5bn pa for the UK at the weekend. And
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Brexit is not a done deal as yet
The Guardian reports this morning that: The British government has been accused of breaking international law for a second time by the European commission after
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Labour has to decide on Brexit – because half of England and Wales cannot go unrepresented forever
The Guardian has reported that: Labour MPs are being asked by the party’s high command not to focus on problems caused by Brexit when asking questions in
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The post-Brexit question has to cease to be ‘what have we done?’ and become instead ‘what can we do about it?’
A tweet from Robert Peston refers to one of the more rapid consequences of Brexit, after the demise of the UK shellfish industry, that is: This
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Brexit was the wrong answer to a question that did not exist
I struggle with a conversation with someone who clearly thought Brexit was justified by differing reactions to the coronavirus crisis last week, and that all
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Jersey says it isn’t a tax haven, but there again, every tax haven says that
I noted a few days ago that the European Parliament has voted to include Jersey on the EU’s tax haven blacklist. That does not add
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