On the 16th BRICS summit, the UK is in danger of being left behind as the rising trade bloc overtakes the G7 and makes the US dollar an also-ran. Will the UK continue self-harming and stay on the sidelines to please the US?
BRICS now the biggest trade bloc on the planet Read More »
With mere weeks to go before Britain crashes deal-less out of the European Union, where are we now? Britain is leaving the EU just as Japan’s ground-breaking trade pact with the EU kicks in, making those combined forces the world’s largest trading body and one in which we still (for a nanosecond or two) have
It’s a whole month since the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in London, yet the conflagration that killed 80 people seems ever present. A bonfire of regulations & a raft of corrupt, money-grabbing decisions led here. Will we ever see justice?
Tinderbox plc: a poem for Grenfell Tower Read More »
Anna Chen discusses Victorian and Edwardian-era Yellow Peril fears with Ian Hislop on Who Should We Let In? Thursday 22nd June, 9pm, BBC2 From the sublime to the ridiculous. There was I, having a high old time with Ian Hislop on Who Should We Let In?— the First Great Immigration Row, his grown-up investigation into
Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum group repackages betrayal as a nationwide campaign to ‘Take Back Control’ of Brexit and push it through despite only 37 per cent of the electorate voting Leave. Around 70 per cent of Labour voters chose Remain in the EU referendum but Remainers are unrepresented by the main parties. Instead of robustly challenging
Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum betrays the 70% of Labour voters who voted Remain Read More »
The Reluctant Capitalist: a depreciating currency and the mirage of a thriving FTSE (or: how we are so screwed). Keeping the Left up to speed. The pro-Brexit camp is lulling us into complacency over the results of the EU referendum where only 37 per cent of the electorate voted Leave, along with a summer bounce
Brexit: a depreciating currency and the mirage of a thriving economy Read More »
