P.S: Only one Tory Prime Minister in recent years was “taken down” by Tory MPs. Clue: it was neither Major nor Cameron.
We have a duty to honour the inter-generational contract articulated by Edmund Burke.
What about those who worship different gods, those who delight in civil rights movements, those mothers who want to go out to work?
Taking out the middle man is what the Protestant reformers promised to do, and Carswell is in his way a very Protestant figure.
Jefferson may have had the better lines, but Hamilton got the big calls right – and now he has the more stirring verses, too.
Her refusal to gossip with journalists makes her serious.
But if they defy the referendum result, they must also accept the consequences.
Davis and Starmer said the EU referendum result must be respected, but Clarke upheld MPs’ right to defy it.
“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”
Otherwise she will provoke a mutiny in her own ranks.
We should join organisations like Amnesty International, which has made a terrible mistake on anti-semitism, to ensure that our voices are heard.
A flourishing illegal market hurts public services, businesses, and communities across the country, which suffer when criminals are allowed to flourish by poor public policy.
Plus: John Rees-Evans’s bizarrre views. May’s flourishing line in jokes. Trump’s chances of winning. And: let Article 50 be put to a vote in Parliament and let’s get on with it.
It is not so much like a parent or a nanny as a brother. Not Big Brother, to be sure, but Little Brother – to be treated both with sibling rivalry and understated love.
Parliament is not, should not be and probably cannot be a faithful reflection of the flux that confuses us in daily life.