Brexit ‘reset’ Winter 2025/26

Meetings have occurred in monitoring and managing the Withdrawal Agreement and Trade & Co-operation agreement, over the last month, but what did they say and agree. I’d say, not very much. As ever, links and notes …

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Big business around the world

I am planning an article on US trade policy and in particular the export of its IP laws worldwide and so wondered how important big tech and creative media were to the US economy. So I looked it up, and was somewhat surprised. I then looked up the UK to see if I was equally…

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Creative Industries & Trade

I have looked at whether the UK’s creative industries are net contributors to the nation’s wealth i.e. Do we import more than we export? The music industry on the BBC are both very proud of their export data, but discovering important facts is much more difficult. Here are my notes and links, …

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