Colin Gordon
Colin Gordon
@colinngordon.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"These estimates suggest that by 2025 Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time."

New NBER report is quietly devastating about the impact of Brexit on the UK economy.

We need to cut away the drag anchor of Brexit.

We need to rejoin the EU!
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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“We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% & 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, & increased misallocation of resources”

Devastating.
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Excellent investigation of Russian misuse of international investigatory & judicial machinery.
Proud to publish this piece from my former student, who writes that Russia's lawfare in the European Court of Human Rights is "transforming [it] into an unwitting accomplice in one of the most sophisticated disinformation operations of the modern era.”

americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...
Russia’s Lawfare Playbook: How the Kremlin Weaponized Human Rights Courts to Launder Disinformation
When the Kremlin wants to legitimize a lie, it doesn’t just hold a press conference – it files a lawsuit.
americansunlight.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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🚨 Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel

+ New emails released to Byline reveal Cummings involvement in VIP Lane deals.

Read my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social report here: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...
Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
bylinetimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
What is the price for freedom from tyranny? kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/politics/mig...
Memories of fear, flight and refuge by @csibike1.bsky.social
What is the price for freedom from tyranny?
UK migrants face growing hostility within the very country they sought for safety. But what does it take to seek refuge?
kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
What happened in America this weekend...
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
What happened in America this weekend...
Covering protests, attacks against enemies, nationalism, science, foreign policy and pardons...
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Worth a serious look.
demos.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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We Made History ✊
October 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Eight things that have happened in Trump's America since Wednesday
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Eight things that have happened in Trump's America since Wednesday
Covering attacks on enemies, misinformation, and targeting Democrat-voting areas
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
John Gaskell, chair of @grassrootsforeurope.org at No Tyrants Day, US Embassy London 18 10 2025. Pro-Europeans against Trump's regime change agenda in Europe, support US citizens resisting fascism.
October 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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this is obviously appalling - and he should lose his job - but it's also really quite shocking; I first met Calgie when he was a baby reporter in his early twenties and sure, he was always a Tory, but he was....fine and normal? right-wing radicalisation is out of control in SW1
A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
October 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
What happened this weekend in Trump's America?
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
What happened this weekend in Trump's America?
Quite a lot - here I cover immigration crackdowns and undermining democracy
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Clearly this is some kind of lèse-majesté, but what do we call it precisely?
Cranial upskirting?
October 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...
Cautiously daring, modestly radical.
Labour admits Brexit was terrible. Now it's time to act
For years now, the economic situation facing this country has been buried in the small print
inews.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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We have now reached the ‘Brexit could actually kill you’ stage of the sunlit uplands.
March 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM