Borders can be complicated
A jolly piece in the Spectator, inspired by the dispute over Gibraltar, reports on strange borders around the world. What look like neat lines on maps often turn out, on …
A jolly piece in the Spectator, inspired by the dispute over Gibraltar, reports on strange borders around the world. What look like neat lines on maps often turn out, on …
This blog has not expected to be proved right so quickly on press regulation, but that’s what happened today. At the end of last year, when the Leveson commission published …
The intergovernmental way of doing business took another knock yesterday at a meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC), a body that brings together Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia to …
The proposals from the Leveson inquiry into the behaviour of the British press, which reported last month, include the call for a legal backstop to independent regulation. The Press Complaints …
Long-time favourite of this blog, Daniel Hannan MEP, likes to argue that globalisation is making membership of the EU unnecessary because distance is ceasing to matter. When it comes to …
It is wrong that national borders should be used as a means of evading criminal justice. No bank robber escaped to the Costa del Crime should think that crossing a …
The Spectator last week questioned the reports that sea levels around the world are rising. (Read the article, by Nils-Axel Mörner, here.) Higher sea levels are generally expected to be …
Another example emerged today of how national borders get in the way of fighting crime. This time, the crimes are speeding and parking offences. There has been an influx into …
Devotees of detective novels will be familiar with the police complaint about too much red tape hampering their ability to get the job done. Those forms you have to fill …
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, the most successful football manager in British history, has always cultivated a siege mentality among his players. No-one else will do us any favours: …