Brexit

19th February 2018 Nickolai Hubble

How to negotiate the Brexit trade agreement

Negotiations between the British government and the EU are hotting up. The new question is how many agreements they need to establish a trade agreement. If they can’t agree on this, there won’t be an agreement. Do you need an…

23rd January 2018 Nickolai Hubble

The losers of globalisation are in the EU

Government shutdowns are practically tradition in the US. They never impact anything in the end. I think it’s some sort of deal between politicians and the media to manufacture some airtime. So let’s look at our neighbours on the other…

3rd January 2018 Nickolai Hubble

A chocolate shortage when pigs fly

We interrupt your coverage of Brexit, bitcoin and central banking to cover something far more important. According to The Sun, experts are concerned chocolate will run out in the next 30 years. Climate change will make it too hot to…

13th December 2017 Nickolai Hubble

Murphy’s EU law

One of the longer running themes of newsletter writing is to stand up for the downtrodden. The meek and weak. The people who newspapers and politicians don’t take sides with. It’s gotten us into plenty of trouble in the past….

11th December 2017 Nickolai Hubble

An agreement to agree is no agreement at all

The war is over, but the battle has only just begun. That’s the summary of Prime Minister Theresa May’s agreement with the EU. We now know how much we’ll pay the EU… well, approximately how much. What’s a few billion…

7th December 2017 Nickolai Hubble

Dear former subjugated,

The EU seems hell-bent on vindicating Britain’s departure. Just consider the selection of the new president of the Eurogroup. The list of finance minister candidates put forward to replace Jeroen Dijsselbloem is hilarious. You had Spain’s Luis de Guindos, because…

6th December 2017 Nickolai Hubble

Northern Ireland in trade purgatory

Reading the latest news about Brexit makes me feel sick. The whole debate is entirely absurd. The problems are artificial. The political posturing self-serving. A thousand political problems and structures have created a thousand more, none of which need exist…

5th December 2017 Nickolai Hubble

President Trump to replace David Davis

I wish Donald Trump hadn’t been elected. He’d make a great Brexit negotiator if he was available for hire. There’d be a “deal” for sure. And the whole process would be even more entertaining. But instead he’s in charge of…

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