Catherine McBride warns that the UK must not be tempted into signing a veterinary agreement with...
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The City must learn from Amsterdam and break free from the EU
The EU’s attitude to the City of London makes a mockery of EU claims about level playing fields and...
Is an Australian Style trade deal half full or half empty?
Boris Johnson likes to describe ‘no-deal’ as an Australian deal. One former Australian PM Tony...
An actually green carbon capture initiative is available now.
Catherine McBride argues that a number of simpler and more immediate measures could be taken to...
What could possibly go wrong with the new Trade and Agriculture...
A new Trade and Agriculture Commission is to oversee and report on the impact on farming of any new...
Public and Grammar School Bluffers on Food Standards
Dr Catherine McBride takes to task two Conservative Home panelists who want to restrict food...
Busting the food price myth in a no-deal Brexit
On Friday the BBC headline news included an item entitled: Shoppers could pay more after no-deal...
No Reuters, trade will not “collapse overnight” without an EU UK...
This week Reuters published the most extraordinary article about the EU UK trade talks which...
Another “illegal” immigration record that no one...
Much fuss was made by the Government about introducing an Australian Style, points-based...
Farm protection or meat poverty – your choice?
Catherine McBride exposes the protectionist motives within the Agriculture Bill currently going...
Where’s the Beef?
Dr Catherine McBride explains the realities of international trade in beef including the reasons...
Lying by omission, propaganda versus choice in food trade
Economist Catherine McBride argues that the FT uses blatant propaganda on trade with the USA...
EU Farmers Worry US Trade Deal Will Stop Them Bringing Home the...
In yet another last ditch stand, the Remainer undead are trying to scupper a US UK trade deal by...
How level are our farming fields? Long Version
Protectionism on the misleading pretext of ‘lower standards’ or animal welfare is not the best...
How level are our farming fields? Trade Deals versus Farming...
Protectionism on the misleading pretext of ‘lower standards’ or animal welfare is not the best...
The end of global trade? Not likely
Recently there have been many newspaper articles about how the Covid-19 virus and subsequent...
Calls for a transition extension: a Remainer plot or just...
According to BBC reports, some unnamed UK civil servants and EU businesses want the UK to extend...
A Call for Identity Cards
Should identity cards be a feature of a post-Brexit UK. Economist Catherine McBride argues that...
The UK’s Pied Piper economy, the new immigration policy and...
Although many in the UK are applauding the Home Secretary’s new immigration policy, the people who...
The EU and the City: putting equivalence in perspective
Catherine McBride argues that it would foolish for the EU to attempt to prevent its companies from...
Electrification will save the car industry, but maybe not save...
In our new series on the Post-Brexit Brexit World Catherine McBride supports the Government’s...
If I were in charge of the EU UK trade negotiations
Catherine McBride writes that a trade agreement with the EU is less important than often suggested...
Equivalence for Fish? Err, that’s not a deal
Economist Catherine McBride warns against trading UK fishing rights for access to EU financial...
Who’s afraid of Chlorinated Chicken?
Discussion of Brexit and food has been grossly distorted by ill-informed scare stories, of which...
What a Boy Scout could teach UK supermarkets
If those supermarkets that threaten empty shelves are in earnest, they should be worried about...