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Posts Tagged: Great Britain

Rainer Zitelmann: Wealth taxes would be neither popular nor Conservative. Sunak must remember this tomorrow.

Contrary to what members of the Labour Party say, the evidence demonstrates that the public desire for high taxes on the rich is low.

By Rainer Zitelmann | 7 July 2020 | 80 comments

Six months on from last year’s general election, it’s only the LibDems who bang on about Europe

The CBI supports the Government’s timetable and Starmer is keeping his head down. It is quite the turnaround.

By Paul Goodman | 18 June 2020 | 241 comments

Jasvinder Sanghera: The new Northern Ireland rules that set a dangerous precedent on sex-selective abortion for the whole UK

These proposed changes suggest that Ministers’ resolve to address this type of abortion is weakening and, in Northern Ireland, evaporating.

By Jasvinder Sanghera | 15 June 2020 | 30 comments

Shanker Singham: As Johnson prepares to talk to Von der Leyen, here’s how to end the row over the Northern Ireland protocol

Like it or not, the EU agreed to two customs territories on the island of Ireland – and a solution to the disagreement flows from that fact.

By Shanker A.Singham | 14 June 2020 | 43 comments

May needs a new offer to make to the EU. Paul Bew has one for her. She should take it up.

He advised the man who co-won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Belfast Agreement – and argues that the backstop breaches it.

By Paul Goodman | 28 January 2019 | 81 comments

The arguments for and against Brexit are presented with an insulting show of certainty

Europe has no Madisons to make the case for federalism, while the Leavers patronise us by pretending that leaving is without risk.

By Andrew Gimson | 22 August 2018 | 244 comments

Profile: Enoch Powell. Many politicians rose higher. Few made a bigger impact – or still do.

He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.

By Andrew Gimson | 18 April 2018 | 136 comments

Why the Americans make such rotten imperialists

Amy Chua says they are blind to the decisive importance of tribal politics – an obliviousness which extends to America itself, and prepared the way for Trump.

By Andrew Gimson | 10 March 2018 | 43 comments

Britishness is a political, not a racial, characteristic

Afua Hirsch recounts her inability, as a person of mixed race, to feel she truly belongs in either Britain or Ghana.

By Andrew Gimson | 10 February 2018 | 161 comments

WATCH: Ici Londres – If statue-smashers don’t like English-speaking civilisation, what would they prefer? asks Daniel Hannan

This competitive virtue-signalling allows mediocre people today to look back on past heroes.

6 September 2017 | 61 comments

WATCH: Nadhim Zahawi – “For the first time in my life I feel discriminated against”

The Stratford MP and ConservativeHome columnist is now banned from visiting his sons at Princeton, despite being a British citizen.

29 January 2017 | 72 comments

Daniel Hannan: We will get a good deal – because rational self-interest will overcome the Eurocrats’ fury

While Tusk and Barnier fume, the member states sound rather more emollient.

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 8 December 2016

Daniel Hannan: How Britain lost Ireland

A modicum of sensitivity at Westminster might have seen the Easter Rising fizzle out. Ireland might have evolved peacefully into a self-governing Commonwealth ally.

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 31 March 2016 | 61 comments

Cameron’s speech to the Scottish Conservative Conference: full text

“We need to tell voters that we’re the party that can challenge the SNP – now the only party that can challenge the SNP.”

4 March 2016 | 17 comments

Lord Ashcroft: What my research found German and French people think about Britain and the EU

“The Brits would be happier outside. But we don’t want them to leave.”

By Lord Ashcroft | 5 February 2016 | 35 comments

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