In an interview with today’s Daily Telegraph, William Hague, the shadow Foreign Secretary, says that Britain urgently needs to renegotiate its relationship with Europe. It will be a priority for the Conservatives if elected. He is particularly angered at suggestions that Tony Blair is being lined up to become the […]
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Gordon Brown, the G20, hyperinflation and economic incompetence
Gordon Brown promises increased economic intervention by the G20, including sales of gold reserves, and the emergence of “a new world order”: Janet Daley looks for comfort: Gordon Brown has announced – in his best portentous tones – that the G20 summit concluded that “global problems require global solutions”. What the summit actually […]
Read MoreMalevolent voices that despise our freedoms | Philip Pullman – Times Online
The nation’s dreams are troubled, sometimes; dim rumours reach our sleeping ears, rumours that all is not well in the administration of justice; but an ancient spell murmurs through our somnolence, and we remember that the courts are bound to seek the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the […]
Read MoreDavid Davis warns MPs of erosion of civil liberties
Via David Davis warns MPs of erosion of civil liberties | Politics | The Guardian : “Oppressive” laws that erode civil liberties are passing through parliament unnoticed by MPs, supporters of a new campaign, the Convention on Modern Liberty, said yesterday. Describing Britain’s parliamentary system as amounting to “terrible democracy”, the Conservative […]
Read More“The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain”
After first reporting on the book here, I have finally returned to read it in detail; it is Cromwellian: ‘I find the country bleeding, nay, almost dying,’ Oliver Cromwell told MPs in 1644. what made him angry was not simply that people were suffering, but that Parliament was part of […]
Read MoreCommons officials prevent MPs asking about BBC license fee
Douglas Carswell MP writes candidly about the ability of Parliament to do its job: The House of Commons is useless at holding those with executive power to account. If Mr Speaker presides over a Table Office that won’t allow questions about the license fee, what’s the point of Parliament or […]
Read MoreBack to the drawing board for road pricing
It looks as if it is time to pronounce the last rites for pay as you drive charging. Good. We are already taxed according to the efficiency of our cars and the distance we drive them through fuel duty. Thankfully, we may now escape being tracked wherever we go. read […]
Read MoreFT.com — And now for a world government
From The Financial Times, of all places: I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some […]
Read MoreIn Hard Times, Russia Moves In to Reclaim Private Industries — NY Times
Mr. Putin, the former president and current prime minister, has long maintained that Russia made a colossal error in the 1990s by allowing its enormous reserves of oil, gas and other natural resources to fall into private hands. He has acted uncompromisingly — most notably in the case of the […]
Read MoreCameron: put the economic choice in the hands of the people
The hope of avoiding crushing debt and of fixing our society: David Cameron has called on the Prime Minister to call an election and let the people of Britain decide what we want for our economy. Speaking at the London School of Economics, David spoke about the “clear choice that […]
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