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Viviane Reding, justice commissioner and Commission vice-president, is picking up on the "free movement" issue, telling what some might regard on the Brussels circuit as "home truths".The essence of what she has to say is that Britain's welfare system is too generous...

Booker: our wonderful legal system Richard North, 05/12/2013    Follow @eureferendum The latest episode of the stolen baby story is in the Daily Mail, with Sue Reid interviewing the mother. This has now stepped up a notch: the Italian government has instructed...

"Achtung! EU plan to replace British roadsigns with ones that 'talk' in Euro-speak", proclaimed the Mail on Sunday last weekend, in a classic "little Englander" piece that gives so much succour to our enemies.This, in usual style, was picked up by the Telegraph, which...

Following on from the spate of publicity for Hannan's latest brainchild, we have a rather wearisome Allan Massie, in his blog, contradicting Iain Martin over his comments on whether there was a British presence at the Messina conference in 1995.Martin, according to...

For the second day running, the Mail gives the "baby-snatch" story its front page lead. But, Booker gets to tell the story as well, shining a light on the doings of the secretive court of protection.You can't fault the Mail on this. It is sending its journalist, Sue...

Surely not? David Cameron has suggested he could be powerless to deliver on his promise to reduce net migration because of a recent surge in the number of people entering the UK from inside the European Union.The Prime Minister has previously said that he would bring...

The one thing that comes over loud and clear from Dominic Lawson's article on the Messina conference is that he hasn't read The Great Deception. Otherwise, he would never have described the foreign ministers of Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and...

Booker's story on the baby stealers seems to have gone viral, even making the front page of the Daily Mail today.It is interesting, though, how many hundreds of newspapers – such as the Mirror - and online news aggregators have lifted it in its entirety without...