Europe’s steel umbrella has holes
Europe is rearming fast, but weapons are only the visible score. The real test is whether it can protect the signals, supply chains and seabed infrastructure that make deterrence work.
Europe is rearming fast, but weapons are only the visible score. The real test is whether it can protect the signals, supply chains and seabed infrastructure that make deterrence work.
Britain’s problem on leadership is that Brexit created more border discretion than talent confidence.
Brexit did not unite Britain’s governing class. It deepened elite fragmentation and left the UK more divided than its European peers.
Britain’s trade problem is not that it stopped trading. It is that it became a thinner, less efficient trading system while competitors kept compounding.
Zero tariffs sounded like freedom but....
Is the world still betting on Britain?
Britain is growing exports more slowly than the EU
Brexit was sold as a way to make Britain more open to global trade. The evidence suggests the opposite.
Britain is getting much less bang for its buck
Did Brexit make Britain's economy great again?