Following the election of the current Italian government, European commissioner Gunther Oettinger blurted that the financial markets will soon teach Italians to vote the right…
Following the election of the current Italian government, European commissioner Gunther Oettinger blurted that the financial markets will soon teach Italians to vote the right…
I watched the Thorpe scandal on the BBC series A Very English Scandal with a great deal of emotion. In fact, at the end of the…
I turned ten in May 1968. I remember how upset I was at all the Paris students breaking up the pavements to throw stones at…
Well, that is how the Book of Revelation puts it (3:16), and it may be peculiarly good advice for the Lib Dems in the local…
I have just come back from travelling around Europe by train. I wanted to show my children some of it before the re-imposition of passports…
What is a progressive these days? I find myself asking this question constantly for a range of reasons which those who know me will understand….
Something is stirring out there. We have lived now for far too long with politics dominated by the same old Brexiteers and anti-Brexiteers, slugging it…
In a recent, outstanding article for The Guardian, Gary Younge argued that the “fantasies” of Brexit may have been in part propelled not only by a…
Stability or change? This seems to be the question on everyone’s mind. And it has come to the fore in the wake of the results of…
Emmanuel Macron has launched his international agenda. In the last two weeks, he has visited China (his first state visit to Asia) and the UK….
Cast your mind back, if you can, about 160 years to the end of 1858 – when the European crisis was emerging that would have…
The sounds of hoofs is growing, the noise of the emerging antitrust movement is not exactly deafening, but it is at least audible. I cite…