I read the LSE study on which the article is based. Though the authors clearly don't like Brexit, they do say that exports to the EU have held broadly steady, apart from a blip in the first mont… (View Post)

Both points of view could be right - it could be in the best shape since 1991 but still rubbish in many important ways. And indeed, I think they probably were. (View Post)

I doubt that. Their political classes would never say goodbye to all the EU cash they lavish on themselves and their supporters, a key reason those political classes almost to a man supported joining… (View Post)

Who would have thought it? A massive, quick expansion of government led to a massive, quick expansion of fraud and abuse. (View Post)

It's fairly well attested that we have troops in Ukraine in non-combat roles, particularly training Ukrainian forces and doubtless similar non-combat roles, though we'll doubtless have to w… (View Post)