Brexit and other offensive words starting with the letter B
The philosopher Harry G Frankfurt’s book on dishonesty offers a valuable insight into the Johnsonian mindsetI would love to have been a fly on the wall when the subject of the EU came up during the...
View ArticleStarmer’s tough line on Brexit made Johnson expendable to Leavers | William...
Hardcore Tories knew it was safe to oust their leader after Labour ruled out rejoining the EU. Now who might follow him?For some reason, the last days of Boris Johnson’s leadership of the Conservative...
View ArticleTax-cut stunts can’t cover up the disaster that is Brexit | William Keegan
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak feel bound to talk lower spending to party members, but the former chancellor at least must see the folly of losing billions off our GDP‘They are trying to hide the failure of...
View ArticleBrexit will make a bad recession even worse | William Keegan
The Tory leadership contenders are pursuing a dangerous nirvana of low taxation while ignoring the damage inflicted by leaving the EUBritain is rapidly entering its worst economic crisis since the...
View ArticleThis is not the 1970s. Tory pledges to cut taxes are absurd
Sunak and Truss have no grasp of how low personal taxation is now – or how much a battered Britain needs public spendingWhenever I told him things were going from bad to worse, my father used to nod...
View ArticleBritain needs an economic strategy – instead we’ve got Liz Truss | William...
As we wrestle with the disaster of Brexit and loss of the single market, our next PM is ruining Anglo-French relationsDuring a blissful holiday in the Vaucluse I managed to avoid any news about this...
View ArticleKwarteng follows dirty work at Treasury with bonus cap farce
After sacking the his top official, the new chancellor’s next act was politically crass and insensitive. It does not bode wellOne of the themes of the coverage of our late Queen’s life has been what a...
View ArticleLiz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s foolish dash for growth is a non-starter
The arrogance of the prime minister and chancellor looks to have been their undoingThe ghosts of British economic crises past are raising their spectral heads. Memories are being evoked of the...
View ArticleHere’s my plan for growth, Liz Truss: rejoin the EU and let its citizens work...
It was no good for the PM and Kwasi Kwarteng to dismiss U-turns on their growth plan as ‘distractions’, the damage is doneFirst the dynamic duo, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, were going to “hit the...
View ArticleTaking back control? It’s the markets that are sovereign over Brexit Britain
Economic crises of the past offered a clear warning about the foolhardiness of the Truss-Kwarteng debacleIf I had been a member of the Conservative and Brexit party eligible to vote in its leadership...
View ArticleAmid fiscal shock and awe, more austerity is the last thing we need
A collapse in credibility under the former Tory PM is being followed by a return to ‘sado-monetarism’ under the new oneOne of the unfortunate consequences of the 44-day Truss/Kwarteng economic...
View ArticleBrexit has made Britain the sick man of Europe again | William Keegan
The EU did wonders for the economy: that was why we joined. Our departure from it is now all too obviously costing us that prosperityWhen recently asked on the Today programme to cite chapter and verse...
View ArticleInfamy, infamy … the Brexit legions have still got it in for Sunak
Power, in this disintegrating Tory party, seems as precarious as being an emperor in febrile ancient RomeClassical scholars must surely see parallels between the embarrassing sequence of prime...
View ArticleBrexit is just one of the three Tory errors that have brought Britain to its...
Years of austerity, and then the Truss-Kwarteng fiasco, have compounded the self-inflicted isolation of leaving the EUI did not get where I am today making forecasts about how the economy will perform...
View ArticleWilson won after 13 wasted Tory years. Starmer can do exactly the same
The Labour front bench was highly visible in Davos, while Sunak didn’t even attend. One senses that the guard is changingThe Labour party under Keir Starmer is clearly a government in waiting. The...
View ArticleIt is hard to admit being wrong. But Brexit voters are doing so in droves
Having been grossly misled in the referendum, Britons’ anger is mounting as the reality of our plight becomes clearCommentators, politicians and economists tend to think they are quoting John Maynard...
View ArticleNurses’ pay squeeze and Tory tax cut ambitions: can they perhaps be related?
The Conservatives’ long assault on the public sector has been multifaceted. But the meanness over public sector pay is its ugliest aspectBefore we get on to Brexit – don’t worry: we shall – I want to...
View ArticleSunak likes the single market. Why doesn’t Labour? | William Keegan
The PM’s commendation of the EU’s benefits to Northern Ireland is surely a sign for the party to embrace rejoiningThere is a marvellous moment in one of the great Fast Show sketches when, within...
View ArticleIf chancellor wants growth, why not rejoin the EU? | William Keegan
Jeremy Hunt says the economy is his priority; but it and he are still really in thrall to the ideological blight of BrexitA budget for growth? Sorry, pull the other one. Below the spin, even the...
View ArticleSunak may repent of Brexit before Starmer does | William Keegan
The blight on living standards makes the case for rejoining stronger every day – and this PM is nothing if not pragmaticFor many years, when asked to speak about the British economy, I used to point...
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