As Bruno Waterfield reported earlier, the European Union is moving significantly closer to acquiring the powers of a fully fledged nation state in the United Nations General Assembly. As Waterfield no... Read More

One of my regular correspondents complains that, having marked the national days of Canada and the United States in the past fortnight, I have failed to extend the same courtesy to France. I admire Fr... Read More

George Osborne’s first Budget was a curiously low-key occasion. His delivery was rather flat, almost expressionless, with no attempt at humour or drama. Nor was there much animation from the ... Read More

I spent my lunch hour yesterday discussing David Cameron’s first month (37 days to be precise) as PM on the Jeremy Vine show (BBC Radio 2). My opposite number was Paul Blanchard, the amiable Lab... Read More

There’s nothing a left-liberal enjoys more than invoking a great right wing name in support of his dubious cause. Eurotards – as Richard North notes – love to cite Winston Churchill ... Read More

I wrote a piece earlier about the disgraceful remarks by Labour leadership candidate John McDonnell at a party hustings yesterday, and called on Labour to disown them. As I noted, McDonnell declared ... Read More

Labour leadership contender John McDonnell’s comments on Margaret Thatcher are a sickening disgrace, and a stain on his party. In a leadership debate today, McDonnell stated that if he could return ... Read More

I’m delighted that my party has caught up with this blog’s hitherto niche interest in Canadian Toryism. Canada is the only truly successful G8 economy, having determinedly lived within its... Read More

Ask anyone in the Treasury and they will tell you that if you really want to cut spending, you need to slash transfer payments. Until now the Conservatives have tiptoed around this truth. Indeed, befo... Read More

These are early days for a government facing numerous problems, the overwhelming majority of which are not of its own making. It is worrying that it has added a few more to the total, but some of thos... Read More