This week’s military coup in Myanmar is not just another episode of repression and regression in a remote Asian country that is now disappearing once more behind a bamboo curtain. Terrifyingly, it is the latest symptom of a growing global trend away from democracy. For decades, Myanmar’s most famous daughter, the steely Aung San Suu … Read more
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Amanda. Amanda who? Amanda the bed. This was the first knock-knock joke I ever heard. I must have been six or seven years old at the time. I soon developed an almost rabid taste for them. The two most popular were also two of the poorest. The first was: Knock! Knock! … Read more
There are many on the Left who think Britain is a low-wage tax haven run for the benefit of the rich. The evidence, however, suggests this could not be further from the truth. A new analysis by the TaxPayers’ Alliance shows the share of GDP extracted by the Government in tax will reach 34.2 per … Read more
One of the attractive aspects of the Dutch character is an insistence on plain speaking. Even so, it was quite something when, after we voted to leave the EU, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, declared that, as a result, ‘England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally and economically’. Let’s bring things up to … Read more
ANDREW PIERCE: What about Europe values now, Hezza? By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 01:53 GMT, 1 February 2021 | Updated: 02:06 GMT, 1 February 2021 As President of the European Movement UK, the former Tory Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine already seems to be campaigning for Britain to re-enter the EU. In … Read more
Her rise to the presidency of the EU Commission was confirmation of the old maxim that you only ascend the heights of Brussels politics after first proving your incompetence at home – and the six years Ursula von der Leyen served as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s defence minister were widely considered a disaster. But yesterday even … Read more
Boris has blundered his way through this crisis – but his decision to invest in four different vaccines, ordering over 200 million doses to protect Brits against Covid-19 was a masterstroke. That inspired strategy won’t cancel out the depressing fact that the UK will probably see up to 150,000 people (we’ve already achieved the highest … Read more
Ever since the cladding scandal emerged in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower conflagration, our post bags have overflowed with desperate missives from flat-owners. We have been told of the heartbreak of young couples, unable to sell their poky flats and forced to delay – who knows for how long – their dreams of starting … Read more
We have known for a long time that the European Union is a bully. It bullied Greece during the financial crisis which started in 2009, and from the moment the British people voted to leave the bloc, it tried to bully us into submission. But never until now have we seen the increasingly tyrannical nature … Read more
Were it not for the workers’ hi-vis tabards and the occasional fork-lift truck, we could almost be inside Mission Control, Houston – or Europe’s biggest branch of PC World. Stretching out into the distance is row upon row of computer screens – vast banks of them – and they are all showing exactly the same … Read more