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Barack Obama 22.04.2016 "I have a right to respond to the claims of Brexit campaigners that Britain would easily be able to negotiate a fresh trade deal with the US. They are voicing an opinion about what the United States is going to do, I figured you might want to hear from the President of...

50% of international trade is dollar denominated and 30% is Euro denominated. 2016: £1.00 : $1.35 2022: £1.00 : $1.15 2016: £1.00 : €1.36 2022: £1.00 : €1.15

“People have a legitimate right to protest and there are a variety of views." First Minister Mr Mark Drakeford (a Republican) on Radio 4 16.09.22 [Owain Glyndwr commemoration day, as anyone who travelled up the Coast Road today will be fully aware from the hosts of ddreigiau goch (the national...

“This war is disastrous for the people of Ukraine, for the people of Russia, and for the safety and security of the whole world, and therefore there has to be much more effort put into peace.”

""There has been no increase in extreme weather events." (Lord) Nigel Lawson on the 'Today' programme 10.08.2017 " If you don’t believe in climate change ask a firefighter who has been on duty in the last two days what they think about it.” Dave Walton, West Yorkshire fireman 19.07.22

“So the really big question is, is [higher inflation] going to persist or not? Our view is that on the basis of what we’re seeing so far, we don’t think it is.” Andrew Bailey, Governor Bank of England, 13.05.21 "The risk of recession on both sides of the Atlantic is now very high. Perhaps it...

"I urge UK firms to pull out of Russia to inflict "economic pain" on President Vladimir Putin." Rishi Sunak, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rishi Sunak has denied any connection with a multinational firm part-owned by his wife that has continued to operate in Russia during the war in...

I am very pleased to be able to be here this evening. To help to ensure that in Barnet we get a massive Yes on June 5th for Britain's continued membership of the European Community. The debate about Britain's membership of Europe seems to have been going on for some considerable time now. It...

I've ambled along the Pont du Mont Blanc and tossed coins in the bowls of the Gypsy crones who sit begging there, whilst the Rhône flows swiftly past. The hoardings of the serried ranks of Classical buildings across the river, in Geneva's Vieille Ville, dominate the city just as much as the...

Number of main battle tanks as of 2021: A. Russian Army 12,400 B. British Army 227 (Number of photographs of Liz Truss on UK Government website to date - 700+)

"Farmers should vote 'leave' and seize the opportunities of Brexit" (Minette Batters, passim, the Farmers' Guardian during 2016) "If we seize this moment, I know that the future for British farmers – and therefore the British people – will be a bright one." (Minette Batters...

I have a florin on 'revoke' as the logical outcome of the constitutional mess in which the UK finds itself. I expect all those who don't agree with my analysis to pay up, if I am proved correct. I will return to claim my winnings. On the question of correctness, the pretend barrister 'Danllan'...

In my mind's eye I can see Karol, standing in a sunlit farmyard on a Summer's day long ago. Lanky and blond, with a cheerful grin - no wonder all the Welsh girls liked him; everybody liked him. Everybody liked his old man, too - Joe Swoboda was one of the Poles who couldn't go home after the...

Peter North is unusual; he is a young, very well-educated man who is a Brexiter through conviction, not through self-interest or ideology. He is in a difficult spot right now, because he knows that Leave has lied and bullied their way thus far but - as its corollary - can go no further. His...

Who says that Singapore has nothing to teach us? The great calamity of 1942 (the quote is, of course, Churchill's) begat the disdain felt today for the English across much of Asia: overconfidence, under-preparation and an over-weening but unjustified sense of superiority led to an irreparable...

The Government's Brexit emergency cull scheme to sort out the UK sheep sector involves killing a third of the national flock, probably at knock-down prices. It's a realistic approach: say the offer is £30/head for ewes and/or lambs this year, this market signal will persuade the higher cost...