Why is no-one talking about the high cost of Brexit?
Leaving the single market and customs union is believed to have reduced UK trade in goods to the EU by £14 billion a month, writes Murray Ritchie. While the United Kingdom slithers…
Ireland
Political will is in short supply
Brexit is causing a curious stasis in UK politics in the four constituent nations. It is as though no-one really knows what to do next, writes Murray Ritchie. 2022 looks like being…
Covid-19 Analytics: 25-01-21 featuring India
The coronavirus epidemic has erupted in India in the form of a single wave that has stretched out for almost a year. The US, UK and Ireland all show tentative signs of…
Covid-19 Analytics: 18-01-21 featuring Israel
Here we present our exclusive analysis of the impact of Covid-19 on eight countries plus the entire World. We have followed daily infection rates since the start of the pandemic to the…
Covid-19 Analytics: 11-01-21 featuring Italy
A background to this update can be found in an introductory article to the Chief-Exec.com Covid Analytics platform. This update follows on from that published on January 6. Featuring Italy Italy…
Covid-19 Analytics: 06-01-21 featuring Japan
A background to this update can be found in an introductory article to the Chief-Exec.com Covid Analytics platform. Featuring Japan The overall pattern of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection in Japan largely follows that…
Covid Analytics: featuring the World in 2020
On this new platform we display the exclusive results of Chief-Exec.com’s analysis of Covid-19 data from around the world. A five-day publication cycle is synchronised with our analytical methods to provide a…
A fragmented future awaits a United Kingdom
Britain is being humiliated internationally because of Brexit – and there might be worse to come. There is now a clear possibility that Britain as we know it will cease to exist….
Brexit is now all about the art of the possible
Theresa May’s current political strategy seriously risks running into a dead-end from which it will only be possible for a new prime minister, taking a completely different course, to extract the nation,…
Political peace in the UK is unlikely
Can the United Kingdom as currently constituted survive Brexit? Probably not, suggests Murray Ritchie. Later this month Britain’s House of Lords will debate the future constitutional stability, or lack of it, of…