Census letters started going out around the country this week. Subscribers unsure how to answer the...
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Rebuttal: Putting Flowers to Scorn?
Seasonal migrant labour in British agriculture may seem cheap, but carries a number of unpleasant...
The Truth about Slavery
Briefings for Britain has distributed a new version of Professor Nigel Biggar’s authoritative...
Rebuttal: Brexit – Faith or Reason?
Is Brexit really a religious movement?
Newsletter 28 Feb 2021
The sun is shining and we have a timeline for escape from the endless Covid limbo.
Rebuttal: Global Britain in Higher Education
How the UK profits from a changing balance of international students.
Newsletter 21 Feb 2021
There’s more Megxit than Brexit in the news this weekend – which is surely rather a good sign.
Letters to the Press
This week BfB co-editors Graham Gudgin and Robert Tombs had three letters published in the Times...
Rebuttal: Working to Rule at the Borders
Customs issues for British exporters are not simply the result of new procedures - but the EU won't...
Newsletter 14 Feb 2021
Happy Valentine’s Day! A time for many a sweet and endearing display of affection, as well as a few...
Rebuttal: Facing the Music
EU intransigence, not 'failure' of British ambition, is to blame for touring musicians'...
Rebuttal: Sharing the Load
Several newspapers have reported on London losing share-trading business to Amsterdam - but the...
Newsletter 07 Jan 2020
More squirming from the EU over vaccines this week. Ursula von der Leyen joined Emmanuel Macron in...
Rebuttal: Why Brexit didn’t cause a 68% Drop in Exports to...
Sensationalist statistics are not only misleading, but actively pernicious.
Rebuttal: A Tale of Two Borders
While the situation at Dover is better than many Remain-leaning outlets are making out, the...
Newletter 31 Jan 2021
This week felt rather like witnessing one of those very messy celebrity breakdowns, as the EU made...
Can the Northern Ireland Protocol survive the EU vaccine fiasco?
The European Commission, several prominent national politicians, and some European institutions...
VAT & Import Charges
The inns and outs of new import regulations.
Cross-Channel threats
If anyone hoped that signing a ‘deal’ with the UK would lead the EU into a period of calm and...
Newsletter 24 Jan 2021
The terrifying post-Brexit monsters with which we were so often threatened continue to prove to...
Rebuttal: Whither the Queues
The efficiency of logistics at Britain's borders continues to embarrass Remain doomsayers.
Rebuttal: Small Beer for British Banking
Though critics have seized on modest outflows from the City as evidence of Brexit's ill effects...
Newsletter 17 Jan 2021
If you thought the Percy Pigs story was a sign of Remainers scraping the very bottom of the barrel...
Rebuttal: Un-bee-lieable
Recent stories of the UK's licensing of pesticides have nothing to do with the EU and everything to...
Newsletter 10 Jan 2021
The media has been full of apocalyptic reports this week. But none of it is a consequence of Brexit...
Rebuttal: Apocalypse Postponed
The logistical disruption at Calais and Dover prophesied by Remainers has yet to appear.
Newsletter 03 Jan 2021
What a difference a couple of weeks makes. The deal is done! And it’s good enough!
Rebuttal: Of Seas, Seeds and the SNP
Nicola Sturgeon's separatist attacks on the content of the Brexit deal both twist the facts and...
Best Wishes for 2021 (and here are some Brexit benefits)
Best wishes from BfB for a Happy New Year – with powers of self-government restored. Here are some...
New BfB report explains the politics and economics of the...
Fishing is proving to be the final sticking point in the UK-EU negotiations, yet the issues at...
Rebuttal: Dictating the Terms of Trade
The EU's negotiating demands reflect neither normal international practice nor the inevitable force...
Newsletter 20 Dec 2020
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Boris that all the...
Rebuttal: Eras-must or Erasmusnt’?
Calls for the UK to participate in the EU's student exchange scheme rely on dubious statistics and...
Britain has ‘nuclear options’ against EU hostility
The EU has tended to push the UK around in trade talks rather as it does to small nations like...
Newsletter 13 Dec 2020
Perhaps this is it. Perhaps we will be leaving with No Deal.
Rebuttal: A Brexit Bottleneck at the Borders?
Contrary to what some reports are claiming, no-deal disruption at the borders is likely to be...
Newsletter 7 Dec 2020
Exciting news this week, as Britain approved the Pfizer vaccine – becoming the first Western...
Rebuttal: Fishing’s Plaice in Negotiations
British negotiators should discount claims that the sector will be unable to access European...
Rebuttal: Assuming the Worst
Why OECD forecasts are wrong to believe that Brexit will be a serious drag on growth
Newsletter 29 November 2020
Project Fear 3.0 (or is that too low a number?) continues to ramp up the scare stories in these...
Rebuttal: Systematic Crisis or Systematic Lack of Evidence?
We take a look at claims that customs checks will bring about shortages, and look at the problems...
Rebuttal: Will Brexit really cost more than COVID?
Addressing the assumptions behind projections of long-term economic decline.
Newsletter 22 November 2020
Cheery news this week, as the UK and Canada have agreed a post-Brexit trade deal, rolling over the...
Baroness Fox in support of the Internal Market Bill
Baroness Claire Fox made the following powerful speech during the House of Lords debate on the...
Rebuttal: Whither Irish Trade post-Brexit?
Ireland has even more to lose from a hard Brexit than commentators have claimed.
Rebuttal: The Bill, the Lords and the President-Elect
The election of Joe Biden and the defeat of the Internal Market Bill in the Lords won't bring about...
Newsletter 15 Nov 2020
The news from Westminster this weekend looks rather a lot like the breakdown of a gossipy year 9...
Rebuttal: (Electric) Shock and Awe
The problems with threats to remove the UK's access to European energy markets.
New BfB report shows costs of no-deal have been seriously...
With the deadline for a Brexit deal looming, Briefings for Britain is publishing a new report...
Newsletter 8 November 2020
It should have been a week in which we gathered for firework displays and Remembrance services.