There is a Labour tradition of defending brutal dictatorships.
It backed nationalisation in the ’40s. It opposed Thatcher’s economic policy in the ’80s. It supported the Euro in the ’90s. And now it wants Single Market membership.
As time passes, a decreasing slice of the electorate has any experience at all of old-fashioned socialism. And the argument that it doesn’t work cuts little ice.
Today’s choice is between a woman who has grasped the scale and sweep of Brexit, and a man who has spent his entire career cuddling up to Britain’s enemies.
The Prime Minister’s manifesto will have its flaws, but she has grasped the implications of Brexit more surely than any other senior politician.
Is it truly necessary to keep reciting these arguments? Sadly, yes – in each generation some people are drawn to brutal ideologies.
Owen Jones is rewriting history.
Castro’s apologists find it too painful to admit they’ve raised a feeling of belonging above moral principle.
These futuristic gadgets can help fill a Queen’s Speech, but in real life, drivers will want to stay in control – at least for the time being.
It is not a “renegotiation” at all, since there is no treaty reform – a point President Hollande was quick to make yesterday.
Some who claim to believe in ‘liberté, égalité, fraternité’, have ended up making excuses for those who seek to destroy those very principles.
Stalin accused him of spying for Churchill and locked him up.
From the Falklands to the Middle East, he’s reliably on the wrong side.
We should not only meet our spending minimum, but exceed it in order to maximise our vital strategic and tactical needs.