Daniel Hannan MEP: How the Left’s hatred devoured its own election campaign

Labour could have done better with a different leader and a different strategy. But its error was its usual one: to assume moral superiority

Daniel Hannan MEP: Why proportional representation is now right for the Commons

A Royal Commission should put the options before Parliament in time for a referendum in, say, 2018.

Daniel Hannan MEP: If at first you don’t secede…

Having failed to destroy the Union by turning Scottish voters against it, Salmond now proposes to do so by turning English ones against it instead.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Islam needs an Enlightenment – not a Reformation

We must be not so foolish as to vindicate the Wahhabi contention that you can’t be a good Muslim and a patriotic citizen of a liberal democracy.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Scowl, and you’ll help to lose the EU referendum. Smile, and you’ll help to win it.

Reflecting people’s gripes back at them will take you only so far. To get further, you must also offer something better.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Scrap IPSA, keep outside interests, adopt Recall – and free the Commons from professional politicians

Instead of prohibiting second jobs, we should treat serving as an MP as being a second job.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Ukraine. Europe stayed silent.

A poem by Oleksandr Oles.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Cameron’s coming EU renegotiation will alter nothing

But he remains our best chance of getting an In/Out referendum.

Daniel Hannan MEP: The best answer to the West Lothian Question is localism

P.S: We need it for its own sake anyway.

Daniel Hannan MEP: As Bashir signs up to the Conservatives, don’t knock defectors – whichever party they join or leave

The parties these great men abandoned behaved in the same idiotic way that ours did over Mark Reckless, or that UKIP is now doing over their departed MEP.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Stop complaining about the NHS. You’re getting what you asked for.

It may not always work well. It isn’t a model other countries want. But we’ve chosen it – and so are stuck with it.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Nine myths about the EU

An exercise in demolition.

Daniel Hannan MEP: How to prove to the Left that we’re pro the underdog

We Evil Tory Hatemongers can best respond to our opponents’ misplaced sense of moral superiority by demonstrating that markets work better than the state.

Daniel Hannan MEP: What I learned about The Hobbit from reading it to my children

Here is a book that, as much as any I can think of, needs to be read aloud. Tolkien, like many Catholics of his generation, understood the power of incantation.

Daniel Hannan MEP: A leader who favours EU membership? Sure. But there’s still good reason to vote Conservative.

It hardly seems fair, in the circs, to blame the Prime Minister for not holding views that he has never pretended to hold.