Europe

‘All the Lonely People’, an article published in 2018 in The Economist, highlighted the financial implications of loneliness. What was perhaps most striking about the article was its stressing of…

Back in the days of our imperial splendour, Prime Minister Palmerston summed up British foreign policy as well as anyone. “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual…

Many world changing journeys have started from Greenwich in London, a place dissected by and home to the Meridian Line at 0 degrees longitude, the centre of world time (GMT),…

The United Kingdom has (finally) left the European Union, the union flag has been taken down and UK MEPs have packed their bags, said ‘au revoir’ to Brussels and hopped…

I had a quick look through Hansard and discovered that I first started speaking on this subject 20 years ago in a debate on the persecution of Christians in Egypt.…

(Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Fratelli d’Italia) Ever since the elections in March 2018, almost all Italian parties have contradicted the platforms they stood on and the values they meant…

Shortly before Christmas, The Economist published an article titled ‘The liberalisation of Ireland: How Ireland stopped being one of the most devout, socially conservative places in Europe.’ The piece provided…

Now that Brexit has finally been done, it is vital that Boris Johnson’s new government quickly grasps all the policy opportunities that are there in the post-Brexit environment.  They are…

You would have to have lived in a cave for the best part of the last decade not to have been aware of Brexit.  The subject has consumed British politics…

The European Parliament Elections last year showed the stark reality of politics in Europe – that the EU is more divided than ever. However, you wouldn’t think that was the…