If Truss can reach a deal on NI and the Crossings, and tackle planning dysfunction, I will be pleased and impressed. I’m not quite yet ruling it out. The working time directive and bankers bonus stuf… (View Post)

US seems highly regulated and quite dysfunctional. But there is also an irrepressible entrepreneurial spirit that seems missing from the UK. I am quite fascinated by this paradox. (View Post)

Truss’s concession that a US-UK trade deal is not on the cards is actually to be welcomed. Brexit can’t work as a pack of lies, which was the effective strategy 2016-2022. (View Post)

What red tape? Right wing think tank the Heritage Foundation had Britain ranked as one of the most “economically free” countries on the planet. Until, er, Brexit fucked up the trade freedom component… (View Post)

We desperately need to find a way for encourage business investment. As Sarah O’Connor of the FT points out, Brits aren’t “lazy”, they’re desperately running to stand still. https://twitter.com/sarah… (View Post)