Nobody quite knows what any of these terms mean. One interpretation is that a soft Brexit would maintain access to the customs union and maybe…
Nobody quite knows what any of these terms mean. One interpretation is that a soft Brexit would maintain access to the customs union and maybe…
Another referendum has come and gone. This time in Italy. A high turnout of voters soundly rejected Matteo Renzi’s proposed constitutional reforms. Renzi will, tomorrow,…
A budgetary statement by the Chancellor is where it becomes crystal clear that politics and economics are inextricably intertwined. So it was with this week’s…
For the last couple of years, I have been urging everyone who would listen to take seriously the fundamental cultural change that is sweeping the…
The ideas of great men and women usually fall apart because they necessarily have to be implemented by average people. The idea of a collaborative…
Across Europe, 21.7% of the prison population resides in cells not located in their country of origin. This ranges greatly from country to country. Luxembourg,…
Letter to the Editor published in The Economist, 12 November 2016 The issue of central-bank independence is a complex and difficult one (“Hands off”, October…
In September this year we published a book. We titled it “The Death Of Liberal Democracy”. Not many paid much notice. In the wake of…
TAKE BACK CONTROL It was the killer phrase that won the Bexit referendum in June. It was memorable, it was shrill, and it appealed to…
In our report on Quantitative Easing, we urged for a debate on the effects of monetary policy and what is the appropriate approach to central…
It is looking increasingly desperate for UKIP. Despite protestations from Farage to the contrary, UKIP appear to be financially insolvent. Political parties often carry debts…
Miranda Green writing in Prospect magazine compares the vision of Liberalism put forward in the Radix book “The Death of Liberal Democracy?” by Joe Zammit-Lucia…