A soft Brexit made in Scotland?
Add together the Scottish contingent in the Commons – 35 SNP, 13 Tories, seven Labour and four Liberal Democrats – and you find a formidable bloc for Britain either remaining in the…
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An election result that has done Britain no favours
Global business needs to urgently reassess the likely fallout of the Brexit negotiations and the prospects for Britain once it leaves the EU, analysts, insiders and negotiators told a Sydney conference this…
Complex negotiations to cause business headaches
Farm lobbies in the EU and the UK are already ringing alarm bells about upcoming talks, reports Geoff Kitney. Here is a single example of the complexity facing the UK as it…
Tax treaty history: the day an MLI defeated BEPS
A ‘tax shopping’ industry worth between $100 billion and $240 billion a year was enthusiastically consigned to history at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris today, John Egan…
Rejecting the future
The United States and Britian have turned inward and away from their places in the international order. Germany and France are preparing to take their place, Geoff Kitney writes. Two great voices…
Globalisation: the fightback for a fairer world begins
International trade has led to an equally global backlash from citizens of advanced economies against the economic deprivation to which they feel exposed, John Egan writes. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and…
British trade ambitions in a Paradise Lost
Ignorance and naivety about the politics of trade are the biggest dangers facing the May government, Geoff Kitney writes. The challenge of delivering the centerpiece of Brexit Britain’s plan for not only…
You say you want a revolution
Populists have succeeded in making people feel that they belong to a group that feels what they feel, writes David Rawlings. The wave of populism that is said to be engulfing the…
Love minus zero and probably still no limit
May and Macron are treading diverging paths in the ever-complex Brexit era, writes Geoff Kitney. Two events in recent days have perfectly captured the essence of Brexit and the future of…
The big read: Space race. On your marks, get set … goal?
Not since the Apollo and Sputnik missions has space garnered so much attention — but this time everybody is on board, writes James Fitzgerald. The technological race for space is already blurring…