Nissan announced £1.12 billion in new direct investment in the UK, part of which will fund the...
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Newsletter 19/11/23
Trade Minister Kemi Badenoch signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Governor Ron DeSantis to...
Newsletter 12/11/23
Dear Subscribers, The Institute of Economic Affairs this week published a report into the effects...
Newsletter 05/11/23
alls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas are growing here and abroad. Israel and the US say a...
Newsletter 22/10/86
International diplomatic efforts achieved the release of two American hostages by Hamas and the...
Newsletter 15/10/23
Hundreds of thousands of Israeli troops have been mobilised and are being deployed near the border...
Newsletter 08/10/23
Labour’s victory in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election bodes ill for Conservatives and...
Newsletter 01/10/2023
The government is reportedly in the final stage of talks with the DUP over the Windsor Framework.
The Times gives a LibDem Remainer a free run
Last Monday The Times ran a long column by FT journalist and Libdem candidate Edward Luce claiming...
Newletter 24/09/23
A report on EU expansion commissioned by France and Germany was presented to European politicians...
Newsletter 17/09/23
Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary have all imposed unilateral bans on Ukrainian grain imports, after EU...
Newsletter 10 Sept 2023
The UK has rejoined the EU’s Horizon scheme for scientific research. The lopsided deal has...
Newsletter 03/09/23
The Office for National Statistics revised its estimates for UK GDP at the end of 2021 by 2%...
The Tall Thistle Syndrome: The SNP and Nicola Sturgeon
Scottish author Ian Mitchell analyses the psychological underpinnings of Scottish nationalism.
Sir Peter Marshall KCMG, CVO, diplomat, was born on July 30...
Peter Marshall became a good friend and regular contributor and advisor to Briefings for Britain...
Newsletter 30/07/23
The resignation of the CEOs of NatWest and Coutts over Nigel Farage’s ‘debanking’ shows that when...
Newsletter 23 July 2023
The kicking given by voters in last week’s by-elections reflected a reluctance of disaffected...
Sunak drifts towards irrelevance
The PM seems to have no ambitions beyond not being Liz or Boris
Newsletter 16/07/23
At the beginning of the week, the Chancellor and the Governor of the Bank of England were calling...
Newsletter 10/07/23
This week, the UK signed a bilateral ‘strategic partnership’ with Poland. As well as reaffirming a...
Does the Left dislike educating underprivileged children?
Education is a key to the future of Britain, and particularly the education of underprivileged...
Newsletter 02/07/23
There have been five consecutive nights of rioting and looting in cities across France this week.
Newsletter 25/06/23
The 7th anniversary of the Brexit referendum is a good time to remember the most egregious lies...
Newsletter 18/06/2023
Rolls-Royce announced this week that it plans to almost double the size of its Raynesway site...
Newsletter 12/06/23
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President Biden unveiled a new ‘framework for a US-UK Economic...
Unsound Brexit facts from soggy Tories
Tory remainers may be becoming desperate. Two recent TV appearances show how they are willing to...
Newsletter 04/06/23
The government is considering fixing maximum prices for supermarket goods.
Book Review Voice, Values, and Virtue
Professor Matthew Goodwin’s new book, Voice, Values and Virtue does the best job we know in...
Newsletter 28/05/23
UK gilt prices surged recently, connected to the announcement that UK inflation rates are likely to...
Newsletter 21/05/23
Keir Starmer has announced his priorities for his first term in office if he is elected prime...
Newsletter 14/05/23
Hot on the heels of the Coronation, the UK hosted another big show in the Eurovision song contest...
Newsletter 07/05/23
Yesterday’s coronation was a well-balanced blend of ancient ceremony with enough concession to...
Newsletter 30/04/23
Ambassadors from EU nations are meeting on the south coast of England this weekend, to discuss...
Newsletter 01/04/23
Negotiators announced on Thursday that the UK will be joining the CPTPP
Brexit is now irreversible!!
The UK’s accession to the giant Asian trading bloc CPTPP is an economic and political triumph...
Talk delivered at a UK in a Changing Europe seminar March 22 2023
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Newsletter 19/03/23
The government’s PR victory with the British public on Northern Ireland is not necessarily matched...
Newsletter 12/03/23
Politicians and Northern Irish voters continue to digest the implications of the proposed Northern...
Customs costs post-Brexit: HMRC’s claims prove to be wildly...
In 2018, the Head of HM Revenue and Customs claimed that the UK leaving the EU customs union would...
Newsletter 26/02/23
More rumours about Rishi’s Sunak’s Northern Ireland deal with the EU, though nothing official has...
Newsletter 19/02/23
Readers may be (un?)surprised to learn that parts of the civil service consider support for Brexit...
Open society and environment awareness: a lesson from China
Chinese environment correspondents thought they could open their society because of the urgency to...
Newsletter 12/02/23
This week, the Supreme Court declared the Northern Ireland Protocol to be lawful.
Ten Questions for Rejoiners
The politicians, civil servants, lobbyists and disgruntled Remainers who want to pull us backwards...
Newsletter 05/02/23
Happy third birthday to Brexit!
Newsletter 29/01/23
Rishi Sunak’s government has continued intensive negotiations with the EU over the Northern Ireland...
Newsletter 22/01/23
Northern Ireland remains in the news this week.
Ukraine: On The Battlefields
What have the Russians got in store, both metaphorically and literally? It looks as though—if they...
Newsletter 16/01/23
The Northern Ireland Protocol is back in the news.
The BBC take on the Brexit scorecard two years on
We reproduce here a recent BBC 'scorecard' on the impact of Brexit two years in. We do so to...