Richard Barfield
Adviser on governance, risk and regulation in financial services. Developing skills in semi-retired activities and caretaker of https://BrexitFactBase.com London-based.
- "Restoring Palace of Westminster could cost £40bn & take 61 years" This is insane. The restoration of one building is the spend on constructing HS2 (as of last July) & roughly double the £21.8bn committed to support Ukraine It’s time to look at alternatives www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
- Well said
- “I look at the performative hand-wringing, all the ‘OMG can’t believe Starmer appointed him despite all this!’ and I feel I’m in a parallel universe. Starmer appointed him BECAUSE of, not despite it. To be our interface with a corrupt WH that operates in precisely the same way. Everyone understood.”
- ‘I wondered if I would be a coward or not’: five Ukrainian men on how war has changed them www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
- Newsnight tonight feels like a kangaroo court in stark contrast to the more measured reporting and assessment from Baroness Helena Kennedy on WATO today.
- Looks as if the conspiracy theorists might have a point!
- Should knowingly promoting misinformation be an offence? It might require a politically-independent Office of Misinformation to make judgements, and would our politicians ever support it?
- Excellent update from well-informed and experienced voices: a mix of the challenges in managing top-level UK-EU political relations, combined with the practical difficulties in agreeing tangible improvements to UK-EU trade relations.
- 6️⃣ Today marks 6 years since the UK formally left the EU and once again the spotlight is on what the UK's relationship with the EU should look like 🇬🇧🇪🇺 📺 For a comprehensive analysis of UK-EU relations and the key areas to look out for, watch back our online panel 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
