The next front in the fight over how to interpret the Northern Protocol will be over medical...
Author - Briefings For Britain
Rebuttal: The SPS Trap
Alignment over food standards is being mooted as a solution to the Irish Sea border - but would...
Newsletter 18 April 2021
The sun has returned, just in time to give Prince Philip a fitting send-off at St George’s Chapel...
Newsletter 11 April 2021
A sad weekend for the British Isles, following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh at the age of 99...
Rebuttal: The Protocol is the Problem, not the Solution, for...
Negotiations on the province's future showed shockingly little concern for Unionist sentiment, and...
Newsletter 05 April 2021
The Easter story has taken on new levels of relevance this year: a man being arrested after an...
Rebuttal: A Vaccine against Disinformation?
Desperation by European leaders has led to a series of bizarre claims about Britain and...
Newsletter 28 March 2021
There was a phase in UK politics when ardent Europhiles liked to describe themselves as the ‘grown...
Brexit may depend on what happens in Northern Ireland
The EU tried hard during the Brexit negotiations to tie down the UK to permanently observing its...
Newsletter 21 March 2021
For a short time this week, it looked like the EU might not be responsible for the most shambolic...
Rebuttal: Reading the Tea Leaves
What does the public make of Brexit now?
Newsletter 14 March 2021
The dramatic and contested claims made by Meghan and Harry on Oprah Winfrey’s sofa dominated the...
Rebuttal: Sovereignty at the Expense of Exports?
Description: Coverage of the UK's January trade figures has focused unduly on the negative effects...
Rebuttal: Needles at Dawn
Recent attempts to accuse Britain of vaccine nationalism from the EU side attest to Brussels'...
Newsletter 07 March 2021
Census letters started going out around the country this week. Subscribers unsure how to answer the...
Rebuttal: Putting Flowers to Scorn?
Seasonal migrant labour in British agriculture may seem cheap, but carries a number of unpleasant...
The Truth about Slavery
Briefings for Britain has distributed a new version of Professor Nigel Biggar’s authoritative...
Rebuttal: Brexit – Faith or Reason?
Is Brexit really a religious movement?
Newsletter 28 Feb 2021
The sun is shining and we have a timeline for escape from the endless Covid limbo.
Rebuttal: Global Britain in Higher Education
How the UK profits from a changing balance of international students.
Newsletter 21 Feb 2021
There’s more Megxit than Brexit in the news this weekend – which is surely rather a good sign.
Letters to the Press
This week BfB co-editors Graham Gudgin and Robert Tombs had three letters published in the Times...
Rebuttal: Working to Rule at the Borders
Customs issues for British exporters are not simply the result of new procedures - but the EU won't...
Newsletter 14 Feb 2021
Happy Valentine’s Day! A time for many a sweet and endearing display of affection, as well as a few...
Rebuttal: Facing the Music
EU intransigence, not 'failure' of British ambition, is to blame for touring musicians'...
Rebuttal: Sharing the Load
Several newspapers have reported on London losing share-trading business to Amsterdam - but the...
Newsletter 07 Jan 2020
More squirming from the EU over vaccines this week. Ursula von der Leyen joined Emmanuel Macron in...
Rebuttal: Why Brexit didn’t cause a 68% Drop in Exports to...
Sensationalist statistics are not only misleading, but actively pernicious.
Rebuttal: A Tale of Two Borders
While the situation at Dover is better than many Remain-leaning outlets are making out, the...
Newletter 31 Jan 2021
This week felt rather like witnessing one of those very messy celebrity breakdowns, as the EU made...
Can the Northern Ireland Protocol survive the EU vaccine fiasco?
The European Commission, several prominent national politicians, and some European institutions...
VAT & Import Charges
The inns and outs of new import regulations.
Cross-Channel threats
If anyone hoped that signing a ‘deal’ with the UK would lead the EU into a period of calm and...
Newsletter 24 Jan 2021
The terrifying post-Brexit monsters with which we were so often threatened continue to prove to...
Rebuttal: Whither the Queues
The efficiency of logistics at Britain's borders continues to embarrass Remain doomsayers.
Rebuttal: Small Beer for British Banking
Though critics have seized on modest outflows from the City as evidence of Brexit's ill effects...
Newsletter 17 Jan 2021
If you thought the Percy Pigs story was a sign of Remainers scraping the very bottom of the barrel...
Rebuttal: Un-bee-lieable
Recent stories of the UK's licensing of pesticides have nothing to do with the EU and everything to...
Newsletter 10 Jan 2021
The media has been full of apocalyptic reports this week. But none of it is a consequence of Brexit...
Rebuttal: Apocalypse Postponed
The logistical disruption at Calais and Dover prophesied by Remainers has yet to appear.
Newsletter 03 Jan 2021
What a difference a couple of weeks makes. The deal is done! And it’s good enough!
Rebuttal: Of Seas, Seeds and the SNP
Nicola Sturgeon's separatist attacks on the content of the Brexit deal both twist the facts and...
Best Wishes for 2021 (and here are some Brexit benefits)
Best wishes from BfB for a Happy New Year – with powers of self-government restored. Here are some...
New BfB report explains the politics and economics of the...
Fishing is proving to be the final sticking point in the UK-EU negotiations, yet the issues at...
Rebuttal: Dictating the Terms of Trade
The EU's negotiating demands reflect neither normal international practice nor the inevitable force...
Newsletter 20 Dec 2020
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Boris that all the...
Rebuttal: Eras-must or Erasmusnt’?
Calls for the UK to participate in the EU's student exchange scheme rely on dubious statistics and...
Britain has ‘nuclear options’ against EU hostility
The EU has tended to push the UK around in trade talks rather as it does to small nations like...
Newsletter 13 Dec 2020
Perhaps this is it. Perhaps we will be leaving with No Deal.
Rebuttal: A Brexit Bottleneck at the Borders?
Contrary to what some reports are claiming, no-deal disruption at the borders is likely to be...