Repaying student loans
A news report from the BBC today reveals that growing numbers of students from other EU countries are not repaying their loans to the British Student Loans Company. (Read the […]
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What does the European Parliament do?
Following on from the interesting remarks by Vaclav Klaus reported in this blog yesterday, it is interesting to look at the Civitas factsheet on the European Parliament. (Civitas is a
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Europe needs an opposition
Czech president Václav Klaus touched a few raw nerves with his speech in the European Parliament today, but he also unveiled the contradictions in his position. (You can read the
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Our independent deterrent
Thinking more about the submarine collision that was reported yesterday, there was an interesting conversation on the radio this morning with a veteran commander of nuclear submarines. He was being
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Avoiding collisions
Amid the news reports today about the collision between British and French nuclear submarines in the Arctic recently, my mind goes to a recent story about two satellites that collided
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Reasons for the Socialists not to nominate a candidate for president
I’ve written a few articles lately on why the Socialists should nominate a candidate for president of the Commission in the run-up to the European elections this summer – here,
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Can Geert Wilders enter Britain?
Controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders has been banned from coming to the UK. (Read the story here.) He has made a film critical of Islam, which he proposes to show
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The special relationship
An interesting debate in Westminster Hall yesterday on the United States of America included an interesting exchange of views between two Conservative MPs, Mark Pritchard (who introduced the debate) and
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The case of Binyam Mohamed
I am not going to discuss here the rights and wrongs of the deletion of evidence from the judgment in the case of Binyam Mohamed – the foreign secretary insisted
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British jobs for British workers
Peter Oborne, writing in the Daily Mail, is correct to criticise Gordon Brown’s apparent commitment to “British jobs for British workers”, but he is wrong to say that “our membership
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