It’s beginning to dawn on The Slog that Britain is alone. I’m sure the eccentric rainbow of opinion in UKIP would love things to remain that way – but in commerce, not even an island can be an island.

Over the past few days, the site has run some essentially negative articles about our relationships with two of the superpowers: the US and the EU. This isn’t really going to get the debate anywhere: the purpose was to try and be informative and realistic about what’s really going on at the global level…..and why the current arrangements are hopelessly unsatisfactory for Britain.

The next few years are going to be about reality after a quarter-century of la-la-la-land, and this applies to the UK as much as anywhere. But if we take the pain and then rebuild in the light of a changing world, within a decade we could be more profitable, happy and – above all – trusted as a partner by the leading economies than either of our superpower neighbours.

It is the trust element that soi-disant Keynesians are missing at the moment. Most of these fiscal expansionists are not Keynesians at all: they are observers born after 1960 who once read a book in which Keynes talked about the 1930s.

The big difference in the Naughties has been the megapower of banks, funds, currency houses, credit managers, ratings agencies….and the ambitious hubris of government. Having let everything rip until 2005, since 2007 the financial sector has been paranoid about sovereign debt. That’s to be expected: most of it was caused by bailing them out.

This site has always been against that whole sector, and pro a differently financed capitalism with more sensibly inclusive aims. But it isn’t going to go away overnight. The task for Britain now is to keep its reputation as a good risk, and display once more its range of creativity in selling goods at a premium price to other countries.

So today’s posts will largely feature our relationship problems in a news context – and then round off with at least one idea for the sort of bold commercial strategy stroke we need.

During the day, no doubt some of the usual bollocks will get in the way. But all the pieces related to this central theme will be headed ‘BRITAIN & THE WORLD’.