The virtual cessation of growth in productivity since 2008 is the largest economic problem of our...
Author - Graham Gudgin
Remainers becoming increasingly desperate
Just for fun, here is a compendium of some of the wilder recent Remainer claims about the impact of...
The Bad Friday Agreement
The international celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement were a moment...
Fake News from the New Statesman
Like 18th century Jacobites, Remainers never give up. The New Statesman is the latest purveyor of...
Biden talked baloney in Belfast
Joe Biden in Belfast did what US Presidents fishing for Irish American votes usually do. They...
What should the DUP do now?
The New Windsor Agreement which replaces the Northern Ireland Protocol leaves intact the framework...
‘Brexit has cost every British household £1000’ – Really?
Last week’s confident reports that reductions in business investment due to Brexit had lowered...
Are the NI Protocol talks going anywhere?
What can we realistically expect from the current negotiations on the Northern Ireland Protocol? It...
Are the NI Protocol talks going anywhere?
What can we realistically expect from the current negotiations on the Northern Ireland Protocol? ...
What impact is Brexit having on the UK economy?
In this major report on the impact of Brexit using the latest data, the three authors examine a...
EU membership did not accelerate economic growth in the UK?
This article, originally published in 2017, argues that the widely held view that EU membership...
What on earth just happened?
The dramatic fall in the Truss administration is generally regarded as due to the negative...
The Chancellor’s Budget fiasco. What now?
The revolution in economic policy attempted by Kwasi Kwarteng has got off to a bad start and may...
David Trimble A statesman of our Age
Graham Gudgin, who was special advisor to David Trimble as First Minster in Northern Ireland views...
Why the Centre for European Reform is wrong about Brexit
This article first published by Policy Exchange argues that attempts to assess the impact of Brexit...
Missed Opportunities for the Irish Border
With the UK government about to publish a bill giving UK ministers powers to impose alternative...
Over-excitement about Sinn Fein
The media frenzy about a sea change in Northern Ireland has now abated somewhat as the reality of...
The New Post-Invasion World
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine destroys any illusions we might have held about the limited nature of...
Muddling Up. The Levelling Up White Paper
In its much-satirised Levelling Up report, the civil service has produced a bloated lemon. Despite...
What Impact will the Protocol have on the Northern Ireland...
This is the first of two articles reviewing the potential impact of the Irish Protocol on the...
Who is still afraid of Martin Wolf?
Graham Gudgin takes up cudgels again with the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times...
The Irish Protocol: Versailles for slow learners
Some of you may have seen a version of this article on the Spiked website this week. For those who...
Calling Time on the Northern Ireland Protocol
In this extended version of his recent article on the Spiked website, Graham Gudgin anticipates the...
Only Joking. Boris and the Pits
Boris Johnson’s quip about Thatcherite pit closures being a help to climate change may have been...
David Frost rewrites the NI Protocol
This weeks Command Paper ‘The Northern Ireland Protocol. The Way Forward’ contains radical...
The steps HMG needs to take on the Irish Protocol
In this presentation to the Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Committee on June 23rd, Graham...
The steps HMG needs to take on the Irish Protocol-Written...
In this written evidence for a NI Assembly Finance Committee inquiry into the NI Protocol, Graham...
How far can the NI Protocol be changed?
The UK and EU appear to be on course for a major clash over the Northern Ireland Protocol but after...
Who is better off, North or South in Ireland?
Those who bear ill-will to the UK like to bad-mouth Northern Ireland and wrongly suggest that it...
EU disarray on vaccines. How many lives are being lost?
It is now clear that vaccinations are saving lives in the Covid pandemic. The faster the rollout of...
Is an Irish Sea customs border a threat to Unionism
BriefingsforBritain co-editor Dr Graham Gudgin was asked by the Belfast Telegraph to reflect...
Combatting Remainer versions of Brexit history
Remainers are not about to surrender their belief in the damaging nature of Brexit. While it is...
If Scotland is to leave the UK, a majority of Scots needs to...
Dr Graham Gudgin suggests that the rules of an independence referendum for Scotland are too lax and...
We really must change the Irish Protocol
When Graham Gudgin gave evidence to the House of Commons Northern Affairs Committee this week the...
Submission to NI Affairs Committee Inquiry Brexit and the NI...
This is the written evidence given by Dr Graham Gudgin to the House of Commons Northern Ireland...
Distorted Irish economy means high payments to the EU
Ireland is the world’s largest tax haven, causing huge distortions to Irish national economic...
No United Ireland. Not Now. Not Ever
Brexit and Covid have increased the flow of articles arguing that it is inevitable that Northern...
Now is the time to combat Scottish Nationalism
With supporters of Scottish independence riding high in the polls, the UK Government needs to take...
Why do so many economists get Brexit wrong?
The economics profession continues to try to prove that Brexit has already had negative...
Does soaring debt matter for post-Brexit Britain?
The UK faces a range of unforeseen challenges as it leaves the EU Single Market and Customs Union...
A New Border in the Irish Sea
The Cabinet Office has published a paper outlining its approach to carrying the agreement in the...
Back to work soon? And back to Brexit?
The improvement in the covid-19 pandemic is taking place rapidly and we can be optimistic about the...
Covid-19 and Irish Unity
Just as Brexit was used by Irish nationalists to further the case for Irish unity and the breakup...
When Can We Get Back to Work?
Much attention is currently focussed on when the lockdown can be ended, the economy returned to...
Will the Virus Blow Brexit Off-Course?
Rumours that the Brexit trade negotiations will stall and ending the Transition may be delayed have...
The Budget the Virus and Post-Brexit Britain
Graham Gudgin argues that our first year fully outside the EU is likely to be one in which the UK...
Brexit At Last?
In the last of BfB’s election predictions the Conservatives are predicted to win a workable...
Brexit looks Safe for the Time Being
In the second of our election prediction briefings we observe that the latest poll of polls show a...
Who Will Win the 2019 General Election?
The 2019 general election is unusually complex but electoral modelling suggests that the...
Unreasonable Pressures on the DUP
In this blog which is an updated version of an article appeared in the Belfast Newsletter...