Even Remainers don't like it when unpatriotic Lib Dems back Brussels against Brexit
The Lib Dem stance on Brexit appears anti-democratic to moderate, pragmatic Remain voters.
May 16, 2017
Macron poses no threat to Brexit – but he might damage the EU
The French president Emmanuel Macron is a protectionist when it comes to the EU.
May 09, 2017
The inconvenient truth about food banks: The rich are getting richer - and so are the poor
Food banks are becoming the go-to prop for people who lack actual statistics.
May 02, 2017
France must choose between a smug elitist and an angry nativist
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen represent France's political divide over globalisation.
Apr 24, 2017
Why we aren't heading for World War 3
From the point of view of North Korea's tyrant Kim Jong-un, the nuclear programme has already worked.
Apr 18, 2017
Truck attacks show that the terrorists are losing
Let's take the terror out of terrorism. It's rare and it doesn't threaten our way of life.
Apr 10, 2017
The EU knows winning Gibraltar back for Spain is far less important than a great Brexit deal
It's unlikely that other EU members would let a beneficial Brexit deal be scuppered by Spain.
Apr 03, 2017
Leaving Ukip was inevitable for Douglas Carswell now Brexit is assured
Douglas Carswell, like many Ukippers, recognises the party has succeeded in its aims.
Mar 25, 2017
Brexit is a chance to give powers back to Scotland and stop the push for independence
A constitutional convention after Britain leaves the EU could decentralise power across the UK.
Mar 20, 2017
Scrap National Insurance so people can see just how much tax they really pay
Philip Hammond is addressing a genuine problem with how the self-employed are taxed.
Mar 13, 2017
Brexiteers never said EU nationals should be forced to leave Britain
The Lords are placing themselves at odds with public opinion, and are risking the survival of their House.
Mar 06, 2017
Remainers don't get it — Brexit isn't an event, it's a process to free us of pointless EU rules
Britain will over the course of years free itself from the EU's grip as it looks to the wider world.
Feb 27, 2017
Tony Blair's speech will only make Brexit negotiations harder for us
If he wanted to help, he would be addressing other EU leaders, rather than British voters, who despise him.
Feb 20, 2017
The Left want to think our troops are barbarians - that's why false Iraq war claims were believed
Soldiers' lives were ruined and Britons were put at risk by Phil Shiner's vexatious claims about our armed forces.
Feb 13, 2017
Marine Le Pen is winning votes by pushing rhetoric that caused France's problems
Protectionism inflicts the greatest harm on the least well off – who are often, paradoxically, its supporters.
Feb 06, 2017
Liberals are attacking Trump's ban in the worst possible way
They don't want the ban attacked on constitutional grounds. They just want to make it about them.
Jan 30, 2017
Donald Trump's enemies will keep him in power
The Left wastes time hurling insults instead of addressing his questionable links.
Jan 23, 2017
Brussels doesn't hold all the cards - Brexit is a chance for the UK to trade with the world
By talking down our prospects, the pessimists encourage Brussels intransigence, and make a deal less likely.
Jan 16, 2017
Brexit economic experts are like medieval doctors with leeches - pseudoscience to trick the layman
Mark Carney and City economists prophesied a 'technical recession' but Britain has grown faster since the vote.
Jan 09, 2017
Read Watership Down as an adult – it's so much more than a children's story
None of Adams' later books came close to its success, but my neighbour's great epic had true authenticity.
Dec 28, 2016
Robots will take our jobs – but that's good for the future of civilisation
Fear of unemployment as a result of mechanisation is not new. Our ancestors feared automation, too.
Dec 19, 2016
Brexit looks like racism to the outside world - they need to be shown the truth
Brexit might revive the stalled world trading system – but it's still depicted as a matter of immigration.
Dec 12, 2016
Italy's referendum shows people are fed up of being lied to by Europhile leaders
If voters are offered a choice between corporatist technocrats and angry populists, they pick the populists.
Dec 05, 2016
Fidel Castro was a dictator – but the left is blind to human rights abuses when it's one of their own
There's a double-standard from people who, in other circumstances, think of themselves as democrats.
Nov 28, 2016
Leavers won't be bullied out of a Brexit by Remainers or Eurocrats
Two thirds of the officials and MEPs I talk to in Brussels believe that the decision will somehow be reversed.
Nov 22, 2016
With Donald Trump in the White House, it falls on Britain to promote free trade
Obama threatened to put us at the back of the queue for trade talks, but Trump says we'll be at the front.
Nov 14, 2016
Forget Trump vs Clinton for a moment — the battle for Congress matters much more
Whoever wins the election will be boxed in by a sceptical Congress and dogged by the prospect of court cases.
Nov 07, 2016
Mark Carney should stop playing politics over Brexit if he wants to keep his job
Bank of England governors are supposed to be dull - not rock stars
Oct 31, 2016
My great-uncle fell at the Somme - we must not forget the ordinary men who did extraordinary things
Bill Hannan's name is recorded alongside 72,000 British and South African soldiers at at Thiepval.
Oct 24, 2016
The Conservative 'row' over Philip Hammond is based on a false assumption about Brexit
We can leave the Single Market and still have the closest of links with our EU allies.
Oct 17, 2016
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