Brexit

Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt

The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated

Artillery Row
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit

The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions

The Critic Essay
The lonely end of a political failure

Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection

Artillery Row
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers

Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened

Artillery Row
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills

It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems

Artillery Row
Britain is a multicultural outlier in Europe

Europe’s belated rightwards drift is leaving the British behind

Artillery Row
One of these books is worth reading …

Their rhetoric is unhinged, yet still they preen

Books
How Britain could change course on mass migration

Imagining a positive respectability cascade

Artillery Row
UK manufacturing is significantly outperforming as a result of Brexit

The doomsters are wrong about Brexit — again

Artillery Row
Welcome to the jungle

Is Farage a big beast or just a paper tiger?

Artillery Row