Giving Northern Ireland a say over the introduction of new EU laws would at least introduce a measure of democracy into the system.
“What’s proposed would leave Britain with all of the duties, costs and obligations of membership, but with no voice, no vote and no veto.”
There is still time for adoption of a comprehensive free trade deal on offer from the EU and applied to the entire UK, which even now could provide a way forward.
These acts of remembrance may in some slight measure salve grief, and enable those who have not had to endure such things to give thanks for those who do.
Our democracy is poorly served by widespread ignorance about campaign technology, and the fact glamorous alarmism wins more headlines than grubby reality.
In the first of three articles, the Weston-super-Mare MP looks at how to ensure that the customer, not the corporation, is king.
“In which EU country does the public when polled take the most positive view of immigration?”
The immediate effect of the election will be a period of fraught negotiation, but it might not be a bad change in the long-term.
Consider, Hannan argues, the promises made by people like Clegg, Major and Ashdown during the last campaign.
Ideas and vision are necessary, but they are not sufficient. People need to see results and to achieve them they need to take part.
In the third piece in our mini-series evaluating the EEA, our columnist wonders how both sides managed to become so hostile to moderate concepts.
In the first of a new mini-series evaluating the EEA, the author of ‘Norway then Canada’ argues the route has been wrongly neglected.
The principle of democracy has served us well for a very long time. Signing it away would be a dreadful mistake.