Daniel Hannan: 2015 was the best year in human history, and 2016 will be better yet

Whether we measure literacy or longevity, infant mortality or sexual equality, the world in 2015 was a better place during this past twelve months.

Daniel Hannan: It’s time for Conservative MPs to come off the fence on the EU

It is now clear that the renegotiation process has proved that the Union is incapable of reform.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Why we must back Turkey against Putin

The idea that Turkey is somehow backing ISIS has become a popular meme, assiduously spread online by Russian agents provocateurs, and taken up by some in Western Europe,

Daniel Hannan MEP: The game’s afoot – and the Eurocrats are delighted with Cameron’s renegotiation pitch

The choice is now crystal clear – and many more Tories will join the Vote Leave campaign as a result.

Daniel Hannan MEP: The Norwegian model is preferable to being an EU member – but we can do even better than that

The europhiles never seem to tire of setting up straw men and celebrating their ability to knock them down.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Cameron lowers renegotiation expectations in the hope of selling a paltry change as a triumph

It won’t work – not least because Andrew Lansley accidentally leaked the plan over the summer.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Why is the British Left so allergic to British patriotism?

Some British socialists are so allergic to their own country that they will take up the cause of republican bombers and jihadi murderers.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Corbyn was the only moderate among the Labour leadership candidates – on the EU

By any measure, those who declare they would vote to Remain “under all circumstances” are the holders of an extreme position.

Daniel Hannan MEP: I saw the migrant crisis first hand – here’s what I learned

On the AECR’s latest social action project we went to help on the front line. These states will eventually buckle.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Cameron’s peerages are helping to discredit the Lords

While, even now, some high-minded people are getting through, many peerages are going to time-serving quangocrats.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Robert Conquest – historian, victorious Cold Warrior, poet and lover of the limerick

The wholesale and widespread rejection of Marxism-Leninism is a testament to how thoroughly he and his comrades won the argument.

Daniel Hannan MEP: A Corbyn victory would be bad for the Conservative Party

Plus: the four things Labour must do to get back into the game.

Daniel Hannan MEP: The Case for Brexit 5) Global Engagement

Geographical proximity has never mattered less.

Daniel Hannan MEP: We need more Jews

As anti-Semitic violence returns to the Old Continent, the Sephardic Jews who repopulated France are leaving in droves. Europe may this time be left truly soulless.

Daniel Hannan MEP: British jihadis and the Charleston murderer have more in common than they might like to admit

Telling British Muslims to rein in ISIS recruits would be as silly as telling white people to rein in the next Dylann Roof.