The smart Brexiters know Brexit will succeed if the UK becomes a high-risk, high-reward, high-competition, do-or-die country, like the USA or Singapore, even though the necessary public messaging was… (View Post)

Plus publicists, corporate lawyers, defamation lawyers, venture capitalists, accountants, management consultants and change managers. That list is limited to business services where I think London is… (View Post)

The end of German competition should be good for the relative position of core cities specialising in domestic and non-EU manufactures, at the expense of exporters to the EU, especially in services. … (View Post)

Owning an expensive house gives you a really valuable asset that can't just be hand-waved away as paper wealth. It means access to some of the world's best-paying markets for skilled worker… (View Post)

Mighty migration flows to the prosperous areas. Prior to the 2015 immigration, people in the ex-DDR area were down by three million, or twenty per cent. A few cities did not shrink, like (East) Berli… (View Post)