Published on 12 October 2026
Introduction
Manchester City stand accused of working with associated enterprises, all under the ultimate ownership of the rulers of Abu Dhabi, to make their Profit and Loss account look better than it ought to, were all of its dealings with these associated enterprises to have been recorded, and transacted on arm’s-length terms.
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Published on 7 October 2026
The above is a ‘ball park’ estimate of the total public sector liabilities of France, using the same methodology as was employed in my book ‘The shadow liabilities of EU Member States, and the threat they pose to global financial stability’, published by The Bruges Group in 2023, under ISBN 978-1-8380658-9-8, […]
Published on 1 October 2026
Summary table of UK’s new shadow liabilities if it were to rejoin the EU for the 2028-34 MFF
The UK’s financial liabilities have been steadily increasing, in addition to the cash actually being borrowed and spent by the UK government. These cash liabilities are our £3 trillion national debt, known as the […]
Published on 27 September 2026
Introduction
Amidst great fanfare the European Union (EU) pulled out an offer of Associate membership to Canada upon the occasion of the recent visit of Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister, as reported by the BBC in the article featured.
Little further explanation was given of what this offer entailed. An Associate membership of […]
Published on 21 September 2026
Introduction
It has become a new article-of-faith in the EU that Europe needs to reduce its dependence on Visa and Mastercard. This is justified in geo-political terms, on the supposed threat that the US President might decide to cut Europe off from the Visa and Mastercard systems.
The reverberation of this argument through […]
Published on 10th August 2026, reproducing an article written on 2nd April 2025
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Background
The enemy of the political Right is the nomenklatura – the extensive network of leftists appointed (by one another) for their political views, not for their competence, into the empire of patronage positions.
This is an […]
Published on 9th August 2026 and as previously published by Global Britain on 30th July 2026
Introduction
One of Keir Starmer’s final acts as Prime Minister was to commit the UK to participate in the EU’s €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan scheme. This is part of Labour’s EU Re-set – another part not mentioned in their General […]
Published on 5th August 2026
Have you noticed the new crop of financial institutions driving forward with headlong expansion in the North and Scotland under Labour, just as they did between 1997 and 2007?
From 1997 to 2007 it was the non-London banks and the major building societies, showing the sleepy laggards in the City how to […]
Published on 4th June 2026
Introduction
The John Lewis pension scheme was hit with major losses in 2022. This was largely due to its exposure to Liability-driven investments, or LDIs. Covering the losses sucked in all of its listed investments, leaving the fund essentially as a betting vehicle – will the residual assets return the discount rate […]
Published on 3rd June 2026
Introduction
Banner headlines on 28th-29th May announced a major milestone towards the creation of an EU Capital Markets Union.
Unfortunately it is little more than a statement of intent, and it will take years to complete even the small steps outlined.
Announcement
Euronews’ version was typical of the way in which events were reported:
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/29/eus-six-largest-economies-push-for-capital-markets-union
The press […]