On freedom, democracy and self determination. Courtesy of ToryBear: Watch Daniel Hannan Speech in News | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com He has a wonderful turn of phrase: … the European Constitution, now resurrected by grisly necromancy as the Lisbon Treaty… The Shakespeare he quotes: England, bound in with the […]
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William Hague interview: Gordon Brown could be forced into European referendum – Telegraph
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 […]
Read MoreThe panopticon makes progress
Via BBC NEWS | Technology | Net firms start storing user data: Details of user e-mails and net phone calls will be stored by internet service providers (ISPs) from Monday under an EU directive. Feel safer?
Read MoreDan Hannan MEP sets about the Prime Minister in the European Parliament
Tories leaving Europe’s EPP group
European Union reform comes one small step closer, though the BBC manage not to say so: David Cameron has come a step closer to fulfilling his pledge that the Tories will leave the centre-right grouping in the European Parliament. The Conservatives earlier informed the European People’s Party (EPP) that they […]
Read MoreAre Germans giving up on the euro :: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Excessively dramatic? Mr Fischer now thinks monetary union is beyond saving. A massive rescue will be needed. It will not be forthcoming. German-French relations are the worst since the war, he said. The European insitutions have lost virtually all authority in this crisis. The half-century Project is collapsing. .. or […]
Read MoreBritain’s bankers plumb new depths – Times Online
Via Britain’s bankers plumb new depths – Times Online : Jon Moulton, the private equity chief, warned a City lunch this week that he feared serious civil unrest. There was, he said, a 25 per cent chance of one of the 15 member countries of the eurozone pulling out of the currency […]
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 […]
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Fifteen Cornwall, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. And to think people once simply invested.
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 […]
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