Well, from my perspective, one of Cicero's extremely informative dispatches has been worth a dozen of your poorly informed observations. And he is also pretty uniformly upbeat and positive about… (View Post)

Yes to some extent. Although I don't agree that trade deals are always necessarily good nor that globalisation has, on balance been a good thing. I think, for example, that amy trade deal we cou… (View Post)

On balance I think you are wrong but, unlike TUD, I do think it is valuable to have the perspective of someone who has been outside the UK for a while and so can see the changes more starkly. (View Post)

Not really. Hydrocarbon facilities and infrastructure explode all the time all over the world - particularly when they are badly maintained. Indeed there were seven such events at refineries or on pi… (View Post)

No we had a very bad trade deal with the EU. We paid vast sums of money for the right to have a massive trade deficit and enhance the ability of companies to move their operations out of the UK to ot… (View Post)