If you want balance not propaganda recommend Stephen Hunsaker UK in a Changing Europe Q1 2024 trade tracker. Tl:dr goods bad; trade intensity weak v peers; biz services good, buoyed by weak £ attracting US outsourcing: finserve flat; FDI, look at flows, not stock; less rosy

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This Tony Blair clip has won attention for its realism about Britain.

But he wasn’t always above exceptionalism: in 2007, he called Britain “the greatest nation on earth”.

Much more in my book “What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except the British).

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Peter Foster Pity Remain had no better slogan/narrative expressing this than the vague 'Stronger Together'? On lines: 'Britain powers Europe. Europe powers the world'. Or more bluntly: 'Stay in Europe. Stand up for Britain' (with 'Stand up to China/US' added where relevant.)

These seem like crazy big numbers, but who knows.

Latest from Electoral Calculus Electoral Calculus

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we’ve done an @ft deep dive on whether Levelling Up has been a success or not

by me with more words from Peter Foster and data by Amy Borrett

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“If the medium-sized countries aren’t banding together the giants are going to sit on us.”

The 🙈🤯 part is how UK politics reached a level of nostalgia-nationalist delusion that that’s considered a profound insight, not a statement of the obvious.

Every few years, I search for this 2019 clip of Blair again. The bluntness of his ‚power is power!‘ doesn‘t only apply to geopolitics, but equally to energy policy & the delayed energy transition. Raw power. No longer a lack of technologies or knowledge.

That should be 'max' (imum) charge of £145 per Common Health Entry Document...but it's not per lorry... a lorry can have multiple pallets/consignments on it.

Jim Pickard 🐋 Anna Gross Peter Foster Evergreen Michael Gove cartoon from March 2012 by Stephen Collins Stephen Collins at The Guardian.