by Jason Tyler | 16th September 2020 | Brexit, Europe, General, Politics
Daniel Hannan is a writer and columnist. He was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020, and is now President of the Initiative for Free Trade. As usual, the public has reacted to Westminster’s hysterics with an amused shrug. Lawyers and diplomats, pundits and...
by Jason Tyler | 16th September 2020 | Brexit, General, Politics
If the BBC wishes to balance its coverage of the culture war, it should invite Nigel Biggar to deliver at least three series of talks on Radio 4. The first would be about his new book, What’s Wrong With Rights?, in which the Regius Professor of Moral and...
by Jason Tyler | 15th September 2020 | Brexit, Europe, General, Politics
James Frayne is Director of Public First and author of Meet the People, a guide to moving public opinion. How much of an electoral risk is the Government taking by threatening to break international law? There hasn’t, to my knowledge, been much published polling...
by Jason Tyler | 15th September 2020 | Brexit, Europe, General, Politics
ConservativeHome understands that the former Attorney-General, who expressed his reservations about the Bill yesterday in the Times, will support it were the Government to make five concessions. These are concentrated on a guarantee to the Commons that the Government...
by Jason Tyler | 15th September 2020 | Brexit, Europe, General, Politics
Only two Conservative votes against the Bill yesterday evening – Roger Gale and Andrew Percy. A paltry number was to be expected, since most of those who oppose the safeguarding provisions, which the Government claims would break international law if applied,...
by Jason Tyler | 15th September 2020 | Brexit, General, Politics
Ben Bradley is MP for Mansfield. The evidence is growing that many of our institutions are dominated by a metropolitan “groupthink” that is intolerant to any diversity of views, whether it’s the BBC, the British Library or even government departments. The...
