Can the UK exercise some degree of control on EU immigration while still having access to the European Single Market? This is maybe the most…
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British politics is more broken today than we have seen it in decades. Both main parties have moved to the extremes of right and left….
The year 1992 saw the start of the new-look European Union and the Maastricht treaty which created it. It was also the year of an…
Don’t let’s carp about the way that government has developed in the UK – there is no doubt that, in two ways in particular, they…
The Brexit referendum was supposed to be an exercise in democracy. Instead it is turning out that the Brexit decision is being used to push…
Both sides of the Brexit negotiations are sticking doggedly to their guns. The UK is determined to show that crucial items like the Irish border…
I have returned, as General Macarthur might have said. I was only gone a week to the calmer fields of Picardy, but I feel kike…
The Bank Holiday weekend may well be remembered as a momentous one in British politics. Something happened that would have been inconceivable as recently as…
Last week I was at a wedding reception in the US. Many were friends from New Orleans. They related how crime was increasing in the…
It’s a funny thing, but the political rhetoric about families and family life is almost overwhelming. The rhetoric goes a long way beyond the policy,…
What does respecting ‘the will of the people’ mean? Those in favour of an extreme Brexit claim that they are respecting the will of the…
By chance, last week, I watched a recording of Robin Cook’s resignation speech in the House of Commons. It was during the Iraq debate in…