Jonty Bloom
05 June 2025
Reset Britain is still failing, only slower
Keir Starmer’s new deal with the EU was welcome, but it’s only a start. If we want to improve the UK’s place in the world, we need to go much further
Read the full article30 May 2025
When Ireland and Luxembourg saved Britain from Liz Truss
The governor of the Bank of England has just given an eye-watering speech about Britain’s economic idiocy
Read the full article27 May 2025
Is the UK doomed?
A brutal UK economy report makes it clear: the reset is not enough in the face of deeply troubling data on a trade meltdown
Read the full article21 May 2025
Nigel Farage, the Macavity of Brexit
Reform’s leader went on holiday as MPs debated the UK-EU reset deal. It wasn’t a gaffe – it was a ruse to avoid scrutiny
Read the full article19 May 2025
The UK-EU reset deal is not a Brexit surrender
Lost billions, border queues, red tape strangling business. What exactly is this bold reset deal supposed to be surrendering?
Read the full article19 May 2025
Labour’s immigration plans will close my care home
A crackdown on visas for so-called lower-skilled migrant workers will have a devastating effect on an already creaking sector
Read the full article14 May 2025
Nigel Farage’s economic plans make Liz Truss look prudent
Reform's unfunded spending would bankrupt Britain
Read the full article12 May 2025
Starmer’s immigration policy is immoral – and stupid
Never mind an ‘island of strangers’ - the PM is a stranger to reality
Read the full article30 April 2025
Brexit is a killer
The diagnosis for cancer patients and researchers has got considerably worse since we left the EU. Does the government have the courage to act?
Read the full article29 April 2025
The unwanted return of Nick Clegg
The former deputy PM wants you to listen to his big ideas about the EU. But does anyone care?
Read the full article28 April 2025
We can’t trust Trump, so prioritising an EU trade deal is a no-brainer
A massive 46% of our exports and imports are via Europe - so why not make that easier?
Read the full article25 April 2025
The war against youth mobility is embarrassing
Farage and Badenoch are making fools of themselves over a completely benign scheme
Read the full article22 April 2025
Why Trump wants to fire America’s No.1 banker
If the president manages to oust Jay Powell, head of the US central bank, the results for the US and the global economy could be disastrous
Read the full article17 April 2025
Starmer needs to tell Vance “no deal”
A trade deal between Britain and the US government would be a disaster for Britain and distance us from our real friends
Read the full article15 April 2025
Sorry Brexiteers, the Trump bonus was a joke
The Brexiteers exploded with delight over what they thought was a vindication of our decision to leave the EU. Then it all fell to pieces
Read the full article10 April 2025
Trump’s tactics to stitch up the market won’t work
Who knew about his plans to reverse his tariff policy, and who benefitted?
Read the full article09 April 2025
Musk is right about tariff moron Navarro
Trump’s dangerous adviser believes in an economic theory that was disproved 200 years ago
Read the full article03 April 2025
Here comes the Trump Slump
The only answer for Britain is to build closer ties with our single biggest trading partner – and that is not the US
Read the full article02 April 2025
The border with Europe just got a little harder
A new Brexit rule has just come into force, making it even harder for people from the EU to enter Britain. Right now that’s the last thing we need
Read the full article28 March 2025
Will Trump accidentally trigger a European boom?
Trump doesn’t understand anything about economics – might his aggressive stance on Europe have some unintended consequences?
Read the full article26 March 2025
Rachel Reeves’s bland ambition
The chancellor’s spring statement contained no shocks - but no solutions to big problems either
Read the full article25 March 2025
Rachel Reeves should tax wealth properly. Here’s how…
Rather than cuts, the chancellor’s spring statement could deliver a bold reinvention of what the richest pay
Read the full article24 March 2025
Britain needs to be more like Switzerland
The UK could boost growth with a bespoke EU deal like the one the Swiss have just renegotiated. What’s the hold-up?
Read the full article21 March 2025
A new front in the Brexiteers’ war on reality
A right wing think tank uses very selective evidence to claims Brexit damage has been overstated
Read the full article19 March 2025
Should Canada join the EU?
Stranger ideas have been mooted - but an expanded deal that shuts out Trump is more likely
Read the full article14 March 2025
The buck stops here
Donald Trump has put the dollar in decline. Could the euro now overtake it as the world’s dominant currency?
Read the full article13 March 2025
The Sunday Telegraph Brexiteer rewriting history
Janet Daley has changed her tune about Europe
Read the full article09 March 2025
Family firms are failing Britain
When inefficiency is rewarded with tax breaks, no wonder we are a low-growth nation
Read the full article07 March 2025
The markets have sussed Trump out
Wall Street craves stability - which is why an unstable president is causing stock market drops
Read the full article04 March 2025
Michelle O’Neill is wrong about defence spending
We’d all like more money for public services - but in a world where the US has abandoned Europe, more money for the military is the only way
Read the full article27 February 2025
Carbon trading, the next Brexit disaster
Britain’s troubled manufacturers are facing even more red tape and cost. Can the government do a deal in time?
Read the full article26 February 2025
Bored of being British
It’s no surprise that so many people are looking for ways to get out of the country
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