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Farming and Brexit: whatever did we do before the EU?
As the saying warns, those who do not learn from the past are condemned to relive it – but sometimes, reliving the past is worth considering at least. After all, it was in the past that we were not in...
View Article“lt will take time for full realisation of this to sink into party...
“lt will take time for full realisation of this to sink into party headquarters…” The Spectator, 21 July 1973 “The full realisation of what?” I hear you ask. Here is the context: The Government managed...
View ArticleWe have had enough of experts. Yes, really.
Michael Gove’s famous or infamous quote about having “had enough of experts” has often been held up as an example of anti-intellectualism. Perhaps if Faisal Islam had spent less of the next half minute...
View ArticleBBC accurate, but for the ‘but’
Jacques Chirac, the former French president who championed the EU, but whose later years were blighted by corruption scandals, has died aged 86. This sentence from today’s BBC red-button news seems an...
View ArticleRighty ho, Guy
Just when the Remain side had got some traction for their line about the evils of inflammatory language with that embarrassingly crude tweet from Leave.EU that called Angela Merkel a “kraut” and...
View ArticleBy whom is control taken back
The people after Brexit will not rule in any more sense than they ruled before. But the questions put to them may be less of a choice between various species of stinking fish. (Conclusion of an...
View ArticleParliament cut off its own nose to spite the people’s face
Two things have been key pillars of parliamentary government’s ability to function for the past 330 years. One is the government’s power of dissolution. Bagehot (‘The English Constitution’) explained...
View ArticleGeorge Friedman on the Posh versus the Blokes
George Friedman of Geopolitical Futures looks at class and Brexit: The Posh versus the Blokes in the UK I arrived in London on Saturday afternoon. Traffic was heavy and it took nearly two hours to...
View ArticleThe signs were there in 2015
“2015 was a warm-up for the liberal Ragnarök”, writes Peter Franklin for UnHerd He is wrong, obviously. The sign of the coming of Ragnarök is not warmth, it’s cold – the Fimbulwinter. Apart from that,...
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