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His ‘How We Invented Freedom’ is a lovely essay. Oh, and we talk about ‘Western’ values just to be polite to the Germans, French and Spanish.
Daniel Hannan is an MEP for the South East and blogs for the Daily Telegraph. You can follow him on Twitter. He is pictured above at Monticello last week speaking to the Fund for American Studies When Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, he included a wistful line that was excised by the other signatories: ‘We might have […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Over on his blog Dan Hannan MEP is rightly angry but not lost for words: "For three generations, the badge of the Soviet revolution meant poverty, slavery, torture and death. It adorned the caps of the chekas who came in the night. It opened and closed the propaganda films […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Lord Ashcroft's latest megapoll found that 10% of the people who supported the Conservative Party at the last election are now supporting UKIP (see item three). Peter Kellner has warned that the rise of UKIP could cost the Tories the next election. If Nigel Farage wins 2,000 to 3,000 unhappy […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Earlier today, on Comment, Daniel Hannan MEP wrote: "Today, the People’s Pledge announces the most ambitious campaign ever to secure an In/Out referendum. It aims to show MPs in all parties that there is a premium in doing the right thing: that supporting a referendum carries an electoral reward. […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. I called it on Saturday and Eurosceptic parliamentarians are now in agreement. Cameron's veto has all but died. Andrew Lilico calls it a capitulation. Dan Hannan MEP is most categorical: "December's 'veto' turns out to be nothing of the kind; at best, it is a partial opt-out. Britain had […]
Dan Hannan MEP blogs for The Telegraph. You can follow him on Twitter. Humour me for a moment. Instead of deciding whether you favour an EU membership referendum on the basis of which way you think it would go, ask yourself whether it is right in principle. If this isn’t a suitable question to put […]
The Hitchen and Harpenden MP has all the necessary qualifications for the post.