In some countries, a lack of conviction and an elastic dogma are useful assets, at least to the individual. In Russia’s forthcoming Presidential elections, the Communist Party candidate has very…
Lee Rotherham
Lee Rotherham
Dr Lee Rotherham is Director of the think tank The Red Cell, Executive Director of Veterans for Britain, Chairman of the Museum of Brexit project, and was Director of Special Projects at Vote Leave.
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In October 2002, the Irish people voted in a referendum to approve the Nice Treaty. It was not, however, the first time they had been asked. The previous June, the…
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The Thatcher Revolution did not emerge from jottings hastily scribbled on a post-it note. It was the consequence of considerable strategic thinking, in large part arising from the remarkable insight…
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The process of post-Brexit readjustments continues. In particular, the trade distortion debate arising from the Northern Ireland Protocol continues to sizzle, with increasing calls by Unionists for the UK to…
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Hippocrates around 400 BC was quite clear in his take on ‘Europeanness’. In his work On Airs, Waters, and Places he put the diversity of Europe’s people down to environment.…
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Seneca’s ‘Pumpkinification’, mocking the deification of Claudius, included a line about the one province that had built a temple to the Emperor while he was still alive – Britannia. “And…
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It had one in 1972 over joining the EEC (63 per cent Yes). It had one in 1986 on the Single European Act (56 per cent Yes). It had one…
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The starting gun has now been officially fired on setting up a “Conference on the Future of Europe”. Or rather, to set up the opening phase of a second one.…
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One of the little con tricks of politics is to call any type of public spending “investment”. Far too often, taxpayers’ money – whether splashed at some grand projet or…
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The calling of a Defence Review is never propitious. While such audits are necessary to better address changing risks and threats, the dozen or so that have taken place in…
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