Last year, in Baku, Azerbaijan, the 29th UN’s Conference of the Parties on Climate Change excelled itself in providing the global stage for cant and hypocrisy. The petrostate’s government had declared the event as ‘The COP of Peace’ despite Azerbaijan military forces invading the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh the year before, displacing 100,000 ethnic Armenians […]
The EU is in the news for all the wrong reasons, and not just because of the bloc’s new tariff deal with Donald Trump. Italian coffee giant Lavazza, a company that has built its reputation on quality and sustainability, has called for yet another delay to the EU’s deforestation regulations (EUDR), It isn’t alone: Mondelez […]
Now that a little time has been allowed to digest what Keir Starmer’s EU ‘reset’ actually means, it has to be said it is looking far less impressive than when it was first being spun – and far more costly than the Government’s supporters care to admit. What are we meant to be getting from […]
If we are to believe all the ballyhoo surrounding Keir Starmer’s recent ‘trade deals’ with the US, India and the EU, anyone could be forgiven for believing the Prime Minister has solved our economic future by taking a couple of long-haul flights and welcoming Ursula von der Leyen to a jolly in London. Sadly, the […]
One of the most obvious causes of our country’s economic distress is rarely commented on. Yet if we just step back from the turmoil of ever-higher taxes, over-breeding regulations and now tariff turmoil, we will discover the blindingly obvious. Unelected, well-funded, self-appointed lobby groups wield enormous political power in our daily lives and exert outsized […]
Despite all the challenges from pizzas, burgers,kebabs and fried chicken, old-fashioned fish and chips remains not just part of our rich culinary heritage, but a very popular meal. It regularly comes top of polls and research on the most popular take-away meal and also happens to be cheaper than most other options. As with so […]
Announcing last week that the Department for International Development will be folded into the Foreign Office, Boris Johnson noted that “distinctions between diplomacy and overseas development are artificial and outdated”. “They are,” he added, “one and the same endeavour, designed to achieve the same goals, which are right in themselves and serve our national interest”. The […]
It may be difficult for those that wish to do our country down to believe it, but there was a time, within living memory of many, when British industrial, engineering and manufacturing companies were world leaders. Immediately after WWII and into the 1950s, despite the dire state of the nation’s finances, when rationing was still […]
The campaign to stay in the European Union has launched – and what a disappointment it is. Despite promises that it will be upbeat and positive it has immediately resorted to scare stories. Despite the fact that countless studies have shown three million British jobs are not at risk from Brexit, Stuart Rose still managed […]
There will be much scaremongering in the lead-up to the EU referendum but the most audacious is not the lie about 3 million jobs depending on EU membership – that has been repeatedly shown to be false – it is the nonsense that the UK is too wee and too poor to make its own […]
Is there a positive business case for leaving the European Union? There’s certainly a great deal of concern voiced about over regulation, power becoming ever-more distant and detached, and how the UK has to accept the oversight of the the EU’s one-size-fits-all bureaucracy. But are the economic risks not frightening? Do British workers not stand […]
