Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. UKIP: A national party? “The scale of the advance of Ukip has shocked both the two main parties. As expected, it seems to have […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. Teaching national history, avoiding nationalism How to teach history in schools is a fascinating, complicated and important topic. It is also a fundamentally political […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. Salmond’s Scotland: Out of the loop and off the money Another of the strangely integrationist ramifications of Alex Salmond’s separatist ambitions came to light […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. The Welsh Assembly remembers the lady; the Scottish Parliament debates her legacy The Welsh Assembly opened its first post-Easter session with tributes to Lady Thatcher, […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. Fifteen years after what the BBC dubbed “Northern Ireland’s single worst terrorist atrocity”, a pair of Republicans were found liable in a […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. Last week, I wrote about the decision of the “McUnionists” – Basil McCrea and John McCallister – to start a new pro-Union party rather […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. What do you do when you realise that your white knight isn’t riding to the rescue after all?That is the question that faces the […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. This past week, I have had the unusual experience of watching people whose politics are diametrically opposed to mine making a case that I […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. I read the news that Grant Shapps intends to include Scottish seats on the party’s list of forty targets with no little sense of […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. The Electoral Commission yesterday passed its judgement on the question to be used in the Scottish independence referendum. For those unaware of this particular […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. I’m going to start this column by praising something said by Tom Watson. Don’t worry, I won’t be long. Here it is: "On Saturday, Ed […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow him on Twitter here. He is also editor of the non-party website Open Unionism, which can be followed on Twitter here. He will be editing this new “Red, White and Blue” column, focusing on politics across the United Kingdom, every Thursday. I’m […]
Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow him on Twitter here. He will be editing this new “Red, White and Blue” column, focusing on politics across the United Kingdom, every Thursday. It is hard to believe that Belfast City Council, when it voted to restrict the flying of […]