Newsroom
A torpedo to European security
For Europe, AUKUS feels like the security outcome of a bull’s run through a China shop. Only China will be happy about the weakening of Europe – and Europe’s new divisions – that AUKUS has created.
UK
The New Zealand Herald
A question of war and peace
What happens over the coming weeks and months will determine our political and economic fate for decades to come. Governments can follow Attlee or Erhard. The hopeful victory against coronavirus will be a Pyrrhic one if we allow it to destroy our liberal, free-trading economic order.
Insights
Brexit without the drama
The real work of sorting out Britain’s trade relations with the EU and the world has only just started.
National Business Review
The Brexit precedent
As important as Brexit will be to Britain, its real impact will be felt across the Channel for years to come.
Insights
Will the Grinch steal Brexit?
As Karl Marx taught us, history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce. With Brexit we are long past these two separate stages.
Insights
Boris, a Cicero reincarnate
He famously claimed his chances of becoming Prime Minister were “about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive”. It probably means Boris Johnson will be a pizza topping in his next life.
Insights
Always look on the bright side of Brexit
Monty Python prepared me for the absurdities of British life. Without Monty Python, I would be even more hard-pressed to make sense of Brexit.
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From localism towards localism: A personal journey of policy discovery
Nothing in my work in Germany, Britain, Australia and now New Zealand has given me reason to doubt my basic beliefs: incentives matter; councils can work effectively when given the right incentives; and decision-making removed from the people it concerns creates problems.
Newsroom
A predictable Brexit disaster
May’s abject failure to deliver Brexit would always pulverise her party and the political system with it. Somewhat naively, I thought she and her party would not let it come to that. How wrong I was.
Newsroom
The wisdom of David Cameron
Of all the people in the world, former British Prime Minister David Cameron is probably the last person anyone wants to listen to on Brexit. But there is no person better qualified to give advice now.