Maxwell’s Brexit: A case of intangible destruction
Strip away from Brexit the bitterness, debate and division and what is left – an abrupt change of circumstance with a future that is unknowable, concludes John Egan. There has been no…
January 14, 2019
Strip away from Brexit the bitterness, debate and division and what is left – an abrupt change of circumstance with a future that is unknowable, concludes John Egan. There has been no…
October 30, 2018
Trade deals involve trade-offs and every trade deal the UK strikes will involve some degree of sovereignty shedding, writes Geoff Kitney. The great phoney war over sovereignty grinds on in its never-ending…
August 6, 2018
It’s a rhetorical question, of course, but there is a context in which it is worth asking. That context is Brexit, writes Geoff Kitney. When a narrow majority of Britons voted in…
July 3, 2018
Since Britain voted to leave the EU a vocal group of conservative opinion leaders have been urging the Australian government to take a proactive role in supporting the British decision in every…
May 31, 2018
Or as John Egan discovers, in diplomatic parlance, it is the art of compromise. It seemed that the time for talking was running out at the OECD yesterday. President Donald Trump’s most…
April 23, 2018
Is Prime Minister Theresa May resigned to Customs Union membership for the UK after Brexit? Murray Ritchie suspects the answer is ‘yes’. First it was the judges who were “enemies of the…
March 12, 2018
It is alone in a world in which the rules-based global order of the last half-century is set to be replaced by dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest, beggar-thy-neighbour trade policy chaos, writes…
January 29, 2018
The UK needs to develop a clear economic framework for the post-Brexit era before even thinking about who they could have as negotiating partners, reports Geoff Kitney. The first step towards a…
December 29, 2017
Geoff Kitney explains why UK voters have good reason to be anxious about the long-term consequences of the Brexit vote. Brexit’s international cheer squad appears to have fallen silent. The thinning of…
December 13, 2017
Potential trade partners see a weak negotiating partner so desperately in need of markets to replace the EU that the UK will have little choice but to make concessions favouring other parties,…