More From Daniel Hannan
Jeremy Corbyn and Labour are playing Brexit games with their magical thinking on the EU
There is no Leftist argument for a system that places the highest tariffs on the items that make up the largest share of the weekly bills of our poorest households.
Feb 27, 2018
The left is in denial about Jeremy Corbyn's Communist sympathies
Will the Labour Party pay the price at the polls for Corbyn's Czech connections?
Feb 19, 2018
There's nothing progressive about giving agencies like Oxfam the benefit of the doubt
The Oxfam revelations are far more disturbing than the reports of boorish behaviour by businessmen at The Presidents Club dinner.
Feb 13, 2018
Nigel Farage is collaborating with Remain fantasists - the second referendum is a lost cause
Attention-seeking Nigel Farage has given a massive biggest boost to the Remain cause in 2018.
Jan 16, 2018
Toby Young was a tribal offering on the altar of sacred values
A policy is judged, not according to its utility, its internal consistency or its practical impact, but by how closely it accords with tribal values.
Jan 09, 2018
Advocates of Britain staying in the EU's customs union have a hidden agenda
There is only one possible reason to remain in the customs union, namely as a way of transitioning back into full membership.
Dec 12, 2017
10 suggestions if you want to stop Brexit
Eurosceptic politician Daniel Hannan offers some thoughts which would, in 'normal circumstances', be uncontroversial.
Dec 08, 2017
You can understand why the Irish are getting tetchy about Brexit
Ireland's position is that the UK should stay in the customs union, but this is plainly not going to happen.
Nov 27, 2017
Outside the EU, Britain can copy Singapore or Switzerland – but we have to decide now
The UK has three realistic options: join the European Free Trade Association; postpone Brexit to 31 December 2020; or walk away from talks now.
Nov 14, 2017
Uzbekistan is a breeding ground for Islamist terrorism thanks to its self-fulfilling prophecy
Repeatedly told that it was either Islam Karimov or the fundamentalists, a number of Uzbeks concluded that perhaps the fundamentalists weren't so bad.
Nov 07, 2017
The House of Lords deserves much better than endless meddlesome unelected quangocrats
Our legislature, flooded by Cameron and Blair, is second in size only to China's. This is not a sustainable situation.
Oct 31, 2017
Why has free trade stopped being a left-wing cause?
200 years after David Ricardo's heyday, why are we seeing a swing towards protectionism from those who describe themselves as leftists?
Oct 18, 2017
Why you should be optimistic about Brexit
I'm not expecting Brussels to do Britain any favours; I'm simply expecting it to act in its own interest.
Oct 10, 2017
Why are Kurdish and Catalan independence OK, but not British independence?
Because of its history, Britain will never be the underdog. That doesn't mean it can't be right.
Sep 25, 2017
If you want to accuse Leavers of lying, at least look up what they said
Remainers make Brexiteers look deceitful in order to undermine the authority of the referendum.
Sep 19, 2017
How Winnie-the-Pooh explains British politics
When it comes to Brexit, it's easy to see who is a Tigger and who is an Eeyore.
Sep 11, 2017
Rohingya Muslims stood by Britain in WWII. Now they are dying, where is our loyalty?
The victims are Muslim, and the persecutors are Buddhist - which doesn't neatly fit our Western world-view.
Sep 05, 2017
Five things you need to know about Labour's new Brexit policy
Labour is putting forward an idea that it knows to be unworkable.
Aug 28, 2017
The alt-right and alt-left dunderheads are making a mockery of American democracy
Each side needs the other and builds up the opposition as larger and more menacing than it really is.
Aug 21, 2017
American chickens have turned Europhiles into chauvinists
Americans are as fussy about hygiene as any people on Earth.
Jul 31, 2017
Either the BBC is paying market rates for top talent, or it underpays women. Which one is it, lefties?
Is this a threat to the Beeb's soft cultural power? Yes - and rightly so.
Jul 24, 2017
We wouldn't celebrate a statue of Hitler. So why Engels?
Nazism killed 17 million people; Communism 100 million.
Jul 17, 2017
Trump is pandering to Putin - and it's playing into Russia's hands
He may be innocent of collusion, but he seems to enjoy behaving like a man with something to hide.
Jul 10, 2017
Staying in the customs union after Brexit would be a disaster for Britain's trade
Leaving would mean that we can sign our own trade agreements with the world's major economies.
Jul 03, 2017
Corbyn's support will fall now he's finally being treated as a politician rather than as a joke
British people, who have always eschewed political extremes, won't vote for a UK version of Fidel Castro.
Jun 26, 2017
Finsbury Park attack: We need to make political violence a taboo
In our language and attitudes, we can place it in the same moral category as child abuse or cannibalism.
Jun 19, 2017
This opposition to the DUP is idiotic
The preposterous idea that the DUP is somehow equivalent to Sinn Féin needs to be addressed.
Jun 12, 2017
Trump wants Londoners to be more alarmed. That's exactly what the terrorists want too
Perhaps Donald and his vocal cheerleaders simply don't get British stoicism.
Jun 05, 2017
Corbyn treats Isis, Hamas and the IRA the same - blaming us for their crimes
There is a paradoxical racism in his view that terrorists are only responsive to Western intervention.
May 30, 2017
Corbyn will lose because we're not all idealistic teenagers
Why isn't Jeremy heading for a victory? Because Labour's manifesto is an impossible spending wish-list.
May 22, 2017
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