One of the first policies enacted by the innovative New Zealand government of David Lange in the late 1980s was to remove all agricultural subsidies….
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France wants the hardest of hard Brexits. Or so it had recently been reported in a memo by Jeremy Browne, following a meeting at the Banque de…
Our new report A Very British Brexit suggests that, paradoxically, the 2017 general election result provides the political context in which the Brexit process can be delivered…
The GDP of Russia is $1.3 trillion, about the same as Spain’s. The GDP of the European Union is 15 times the size. Angela Merkel’s…
There are so many candidates for regular circles of life these days, from Halley’s Comet to the Kondratieff Cycle. I have been arguing for a…
The idea that the UK is a nation perched on a knife-edge division between Brexiters and Remainers has begun to unravel over the last few…
In my book, “2017”, I predicted a Le Pen victory yesterday. When I wrote it, Macron had not yet emerged as one of the main…
In the UK and continental Europe, we discuss the French election as if we were all French. Likewise, in June we will be British and…
Europe has breathed a sigh of relief at Macron’s victory in France. Europe, M Macron, and liberals and democrats everywhere are right to break out…
Two weeks ago I wrote how, in refusing to call a general election, Theresa May was putting herself in a position to fail irrespective of…
Who won the Dutch elections? The day before the election I was having lunch with two Dutch politicians and a political commentator. They were hoping…
There is an inevitable tension between acting on one’s beliefs in trying to find ways to keep Britain in the EU and acting in the…