For more than a decade President Donald Trump has been disseminating lies and abuse on Twitter. He claimed in 2012 that the Chinese ‘created the concept of global warming’. He asserted in 2017 that in the previous year’s presidential election he had won more votes than Hillary Clinton, though he actually received three million fewer. … Read more
We British like to think of ourselves as a moderate people, and most of us believe that our police are equally measured and sensible. Thank God, we say, that we don’t suffer the heavy-handed policing which is the bane of European countries. Not for us armed coppers who are wont to bash you over the … Read more
We British like to think of ourselves as a moderate people, and most of us believe that our police are equally measured and sensible. Thank God, we say, that we don’t suffer the heavy-handed policing which is the bane of European countries. Not for us armed coppers who are wont to bash you over the … Read more
At 11 o’clock tonight we are finally leaving the European Union behind. I can scarcely believe I have written those words. We will be an independent country again. As Boris Johnson declared yesterday, this is ‘a new chapter in our national story’. Whatever happens, we have set another course. The year 2021 may be remembered … Read more
At 11 o’clock tonight we are finally leaving the European Union behind. I can scarcely believe I have written those words. We will be an independent country again. As Boris Johnson declared yesterday, this is ‘a new chapter in our national story’. Whatever happens, we have set another course. The year 2021 may be remembered … Read more
Are we there? Have we finally made it? As I write, there are reports that we are inching towards a final deal with the European Union, and may have even got across the line. British negotiator David Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier have been photographed disappearing into a locked room in Brussels, where … Read more
Are we there? Have we finally made it? As I write, there are reports that we are inching towards a final deal with the European Union, and may have even got across the line. British negotiator David Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier have been photographed disappearing into a locked room in Brussels, where … Read more
Prime ministers can make big mistakes and be forgiven. But sometimes an error is so defining of failure that the public never forgets. John Major was doomed from the moment Britain crashed out of the European exchange rate mechanism – into which he had led the country two years earlier – in September 1992. The … Read more
Prime ministers can make big mistakes and be forgiven. But sometimes an error is so defining of failure that the public never forgets. John Major was doomed from the moment Britain crashed out of the European exchange rate mechanism – into which he had led the country two years earlier – in September 1992. The … Read more
How easy it is for high-minded rich people to lay down the law for poorer folk. They often haven’t the faintest idea of the effect of their expensive recommendations on ordinary lives. The most recent example comes from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), a quango which advises the Government on measures to tackle climate … Read more