How we’ve applied short-term thinking to a long-term crisis
Anything to get us through a few months ignores the likelihood that life will be like this for the next few years.
Articles and blog posts by Phil Dobbie
Anything to get us through a few months ignores the likelihood that life will be like this for the next few years.
Today’s weekly death certificates form the ONS suggest the UK has bit hit the hardest by COVID-19, by quite along way.
The Appeals Court made the right decision. Such a massive expansion of Heathrow would be bad for the climate and wouldn’t do much for global Britain. The only winner would be the airport operators.
Boris Johnson has promised the world to his new supporters, but will he deliver? The numbers say it all.
A government review into the HS2 project has suggested that it should be built, even though it might cost more than the $88 billion currently budgeted for the project. Is this the best use of money? In a word, yes, and here’s why.
There’s no doubt his strongarm tactics help Boris Johnson won public support, but polls suggest he’ll never win over the majority. Why? Because they don’t want Brexit.
The path of events suggests Boris Johnson has his sights set on resurrecting the Withdrawal Agreement. He just doesn’t want the DUP to know about it.
Life after Brexit. It won’t be this bad, surely?
On Sunday I spoke on Katie Perrior’s show on TalkRADIO about the ease or otherwise of moving to WTO rules. Here’s the audio, and here are more thoughts on the matter for those who prefer to read rather than listen.
Brexit is a fiasco because we were presented with a binary choice. New Zealand can teach us how to reach a conclusive answer to what is fundamentally a two stage question – should we change, what are we changing to?
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