The election of the new chairman of the Christian Democrat Union Party in Germany should be a cause for alarm, not just for Europeans but for Europe’s allies as well.…
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Reading most columns about the Covid pandemic, you’d think everything has irrevocably changed. From working in the office, to the way society reacts to disease, to the very role of…
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What started in 2011 as a popular uprising against the Syrian regime escalated into an all-out war that engulfed both Syria and Iraq, drew in a suite of regional actors…
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Now that we have left the European Union, it is right that the Government starts the long process of analysing and pruning the legislation that we have adopted at its…
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The developments in the past several months speak of a Social Democratic Union of Macedonia-led Government that is disconnected from the needs of the citizens they were elected to govern.…
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This week marks the first anniversary of the passing of the philosopher Roger Scruton. It is tempting to suggest that he went home at about the right time, for he…
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Britain is once again a free, independent, sovereign nation. Our Parliament, the oldest in the world (apart from the Tynwald, Isle of Man), once again has control over the laws it…
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The beginning of 2021 is shaping up to look just as bad, if not worse, than the early autumn of 2020. This should be of little surprise given the relaxation…
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Boris Johnson entered Number 10 after his resounding electoral victory with several important promises to keep. Promises from the 2016 referendum and from the 2019 general election campaign. It was…
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There have been many political slogans over the years, but few have proved more potent than ‘take back control’. In a globalised world, with power increasingly siphoned away from ordinary…