Former diplomat Nick Busvine reveals how the Brexit wars exposed groupthink and why urgent civil service reform is needed to ...
Brexit isn't a disaster, but the politicians defending Brexit are failing. Discover why the narrative is skewed and how to ...
Analyze the Right's failure to stop the Brexit Rejoin campaign, PM Burnham's Russian interference claims, and Goldman Sachs' ...
A present-value analysis of the UK’s direct Brexit fiscal savings from avoided EU budget contributions, 2021–2064. Built entirely on official Treasury and Commission data, the central estimate is £525 ...
The widespread belief that that the UK economy is significantly smaller than it would have been in the absence of Brexit rests on much more flimsy foundations than most commentators realise. In ...
The Labour government is blaming Brexit for low growth. Not only does the empirical evidence not support that view, it also ignores the fact that the same phenomenon is plaguing EU countries. Bridget ...
BfB’s Nick Busvine reflects on the growing public perception that government is failing and looks at whether the leadership of the civil service should be held more publicly accountable for ...
This week Wolfgang Munchau and Yanis Varoufakis deflate the pretensions of Rejoiners, Robert Tombs is in The Daily Telegraph arguing the case for a patriotic historical curriculum This week Wolfgang ...
The Remainer establishment appears indifferent to strong feelings in the country, and seems poised to throw petrol on the flames. We may all regret the consequences. What do you get when you have a ...
A decade after the referendum, evidence of BBC Brexit bias continues to grow. Meanwhile, pro-Remain economists Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dismantle claims that Brexit ruined the UK economy, ...
The data doesn’t support the collapse narrative. UK post-Brexit trade has grown since the referendum: exports to the EU are up 18% on 2015, services exports are booming, and the UK is saving £12bn a ...
In a context in which legislation on the Chagos Treaty is far from complete, Dr Boucher argues that the basis of the Treaty is flawed and that Chagossians should have a right of self-determination ...