Why SNP want to keep the pound January 2014
Published on 31 October 2020
You can download our paper “Why SNP want to keep the pound” from January 2014 by clicking this link.
The Smith Commission – buying the Great SNP Bluff February 2015
Published on 31 October 2020
You can download our paper “The Smith Commission – buying the Great SNP Bluff” from February 2015 by clicking on this link.
My involvement with the Association of UK Payment Institutions (AUKPI)
Published on 7 October 2020
Regrettably my involvement with AUKPI as chair of its Executive Committee has come to a premature end. AUKPI – both the trade association and the company that the association is based on – are having to be wound up. This was decided upon in the week of 21st September when it […]
EU breaks its own treaty to create Coronavirus Recovery Fund
My article top left on Daily Telegraph homepage
Published on 17 September 2020
For those of you who cannot get behind the Daily Telegraph paywall, here is the full text of my article that was given such prominence on 16th September 2020…
There is enormous gnashing of teeth
and rending of garments over the government’s Brexit fallback bill and […]
Porter’s Five Forces analysis for SEPA
Published on 3 September 2020
I have posted this up here now as I have used this as a reference in my MA essay on industrialisation for the Open University ‘Local History’ course.
Click here to download
The Great EU Budget Deception – the 9th Brexit Paper published by Global Britain
Published on 28 August 2020
We have had another paper in the Brexit Papers series published by Global Britain.
It is subtitled “The EU 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework and Coronavirus Recovery Fund: a dagger aimed at the Republic of Ireland, or a con trick on all EU citizens and on financial market investors?”
It is […]
REPLACING THE WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT
Cover of the new report
Published on 12 July 2020
I was priviliged to be asked to contribute the figures on the UK’s future financial liabilities to the EU under the current Withdrawal Agreement, and also to set out how the liabilities can better be dealt with – you can click here to download the full report
German court decision on ECB’s Qualitative Easing: more fudge than Thornton’s
Published on 6 May 2020
I can’t help regarding this decision of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVG) as a bit of a fudge. It is rendered less biting because (i) this is part of a long-running saga bouncing between the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the BVG; (ii) the case is being pursued by people whom the […]
UK is the Eurozone’s dumping ground – by Professor David Blake
Published on 22 April 2020
I am delighted to feature the recent paper by Professor David Blake entitled “UK is the Eurozone’s dumping ground”.
You can download it here
David and I, with Barney Reynolds, were co-authors of the recently published book “Managing Euro Risk”, issued through Politeia.
David has built on the book to prove how the Euro […]
The anti-cash lobby – Migrant Remittances and COVID-19
Published on 12 April 2020
While the anti-cash lobby are busy like performing seals applauding the supposed shift to digital payment means that COVID-19 will usher in, a concern that has gone under the radar is that it must be possible, during the pandemic, for remittances to flow, and quickly, and without massive fee deductions, from […]