Punished for telling the truth
An interview with Lib Dem cabinet minister Ed Davey in the New Statesman this week has provoked an astonishing reaction. He comments on the experience in government of dealing with …
An interview with Lib Dem cabinet minister Ed Davey in the New Statesman this week has provoked an astonishing reaction. He comments on the experience in government of dealing with …
By Sir Julian Priestley Labour’s decision to put a three-line whip on the vote on an in/out referendum was a good decision. It moved the focus to the resurgence of …
There is a debate in the House of Commons this afternoon on whether to hold a referendum on EU membership, called by the eurosceptics who, of course, want Britain to …
Tory MP Mark Pritchard writes in the Daily Telegraph today calling for a two-stage referendum on British withdrawal from the European Union. The first stage is a referendum next year …
An interesting post by Jon Worth arguing that framing the debate about Britain and Europe in terms of pro-European and Eurosceptic is not helpful. The European Union legislates everything from …
During the 1990s, the political debate about Europe in Britain was polluted by Sir James Goldsmith and his Referendum party. (I have thought a lot about which verb to use …
At the time when the Lisbon treaty was undergoing ratification, there was a rather odd eurosceptic complaint in Germany that the Lisbon treaty, by giving legal force to the Charter …
Other than the obvious question of whether or not anyone involved in Federal Union was actually a policeman in disguise, the story this week about the police officer who went …
The debate on the European Union bill in the House of Commons yesterday focused on a clause that declares that the British parliament is still sovereign with respect to the …
Souverainistes and their friends in the media are very keen on the idea that defence is a preserve of national sovereignty. Britain should take its own decisions and not be …
Whatever happened to the idea of sovereign defence? Read More »