November 2, 2016
Plans by leading Brexiters to power British economic growth by a sweeping free trade agenda could undermine the fundamental rationale for quitting the European Union – defending British sovereignty. Trade policy experts…
October 26, 2016
There is a paradox about Australia being used by Brexiters as the exemplar of a fit-for-purpose system for reducing immigration. Australia certainly has a prescriptive and, in the case of its humanitarian…
October 26, 2016
The major political parties in Western democracies are scrambling to attempt to understand and respond to what appears to be a spreading revolution against mainstream conventional political thinking on many of today’s big…
October 19, 2016
There is ferocity in the way that Brexiters are warning against anything less than hard Brexit which suggests they are fearful of what could be called the “think again” factor. A similar…
October 12, 2016
As Britain begins to turn more sharply away from a future “across the Channel”, the idea that its best future can be found “across the oceans” is emerging as a key rallying…
October 5, 2016
The cheers that greeted Theresa May’s declaration at the Conservative party conference on the weekend when she declared Britain would return to being a “fully independent, sovereign country” rang hollow not just…
September 28, 2016
What did David Cameron really believe about Britain’s place in Europe? As Cameron departs the political stage and hands to his successors the huge task of dealing with the consequences of the…
September 21, 2016
An Australia-UK FTA is by no means a done deal It looked almost unseemly that, within hours of the news that Britain had voted to leave the European Union, senior figures in…
September 21, 2016
Globalisation has been blamed for many of the woes of the lower middle classes in western societies, as well as the subsequent rise of populism in the west, Donald Trump’s candidacy and…