The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
How Britain’s system of offshore finance and tax havens developed and preserved the UK’s role as the largest player in international finance.
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Crash Out Brexit Virtually Guaranteed as EU Leaders Talk Tough to Theresa May, Reject Chequers Plan, and Give Her October Deadline
Brexit negotiations are over. The only question is whether the EU and UK continue to expend energy talking past each other.
Read more...On Brexit, UK Negotiators Have Adopted a Hard Bargaining Strategy
A look at the UK’s negotiating stance, charitably assuming that it is by design.
Read more...Brexit: Circling the Drain?
Has anything changed on the Brexit front?
Read more...Brexit: EU Takes Hard-Nosed Stance on Financial Services “Equivalence” Deals
Is the EU playing iron fist in velvet glove on the UK’s Brexit pitch for a financial services equivalence deal?
Read more...Brexit as a Tightly Coupled Process
Stepping back to look at the Brexit trajectory.
Read more...France Could Lose Billions In Brexit Trade Route Redirection
How French ports and hence France look set to lose in Brexit.
Read more...3 Blokes In The Pub…Talk No Deal Brexit
Nitty gritty details of what happens with a crash-out Brexit, made accessible and even entertaining.
Read more...Financial Times Goes Wobbly on Brexit; Runs Front Page Stories Claiming Theresa May Charm Offensive Is Winning “Fudges” When No Such Thing Is Happening
The Financial Times has used two lead stories this week to deliver factuall-challenged propagandizing for the Government’s Brexit maneuvers.
Read more...More Brexit Grim Tidings: WTO Warns Ireland to Prepare for Crash-Out; Deutsche Moves Half of Euro Clearing Ops to Germany; Food Freakout
More on how the Brexit situation is developing not necessarily to the UK’s advantage.
Read more...Taxcast: A Firewall to Protect EU Citizens from the Big Four Accountancy Firms and the Tax Avoidance Lobby
In the Tax Justice Network’s July 2018 Taxcast, Vickie Cann and John Christensen examine a proposal for a firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby, as well as look at a new report from the Corporate Europe Observatory.
Read more...Michel Barnier Nixes Theresa May’s Customs Union Scheme as Bad Brexit Dynamics Worsen
More Brexit Groundhog Day as the EU is compelled to say the same old “nos” to the UK.
Read more...Trump’s Visit Marks the Start of Shock Doctrine Brexit
As Brexit approaches, the personal enrichment hopes of some of its proponents come into focus.
Read more...From Donald Trump to Theresa May: How a US-UK Network Pushes Climate Science Denial and Lobbies for a Hard Brexit — Mapped
As Trump barrels into the UK, this timely post traces interesting linkages between climate change denialists on both sides of the Atlantic– and extends to Brexiteers.
Read more...David Davis Resignation Throws UK Brexit, Cabinet Into Chaos
Brexit goes chaotic.
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