May
23
Three Dangerous Ideas from Two Radical College-Boys
May 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Neither of our two new whiz-kids on the block has yet seen his 44th birthday. Yet, with the certainty of youth and a self-confidence scarcely justified by experience, they feel they already know enough about British parliamentary democracy to take it upon themselves to make fundamental changes.
They say they want to be [...]
May
21
Which Laws To Repeal?
May 21, 2010 | Comments Off
It really is quite extraordinary.
Our new, naïve, deputy prime minister finds himself in the second most powerful job in the nation after losing seats at the general election. But he doesn’t know which laws to repeal.
If that paragraph was from Alice in Wonderland no-one would be surprised. But this is the United Kingdom [...]
May
20
The Twin Dangers – Islam and the EU
May 20, 2010 | Comments Off
The risks to the USA – and the rest of the world – from militant Islam, and the dangers of government by bureaucratic socialism as developed by the EU.
These were the twin topics of a speech I gave last autumn at a meeting in California organised by Radio Liberty in front of a large hall [...]
May
8
Tories Could Have Won 2010 election
May 8, 2010 | Comments Off
The Conservatives could have had a comfortable working majority if they had made an unequivocal commitment to a referendum on British membership of the EU.
Or, perhaps if they had announced that a new Tory government would immediately introduce a thorough cost:benefit analysis of every new EU directive and regulation before acceptance by [...]







