Economist, Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Writer, Public Speaker.
Headlines reporting new US tax plans were misleading. What we’ve got was little more than Trump’s wish list – a re-statement of promises made during his election campaign, comprising a proposal of radical changes to taxation in the US. In the broadest sense, an overhaul of the incredibly complex system of taxation in the US …
Is the honeymoon period over for the UK economy? The release of new UK GDP figures on Friday shows a slowing of growth from 0.7% in Q4 2016 to 0.3% in Q1 2017. It’s not come as a big shock. Indeed, what has been more surprising is that growth has remained high for as long …
Today is without doubt momentous. It heralds the biggest strategic and economic change the UK has seen since WWII. Acheson’s comments in 1962, following the decolonisation that characterised the post-war period, are particularly resonant: “Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. The attempt to play a separate power role …