Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College London and Director of the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative. Jonathan Partes is Professor of Economics and King’s College London and a Senior Fellow at UKCE. From the referendum...
Top Civil Servant outed over false claims against the Government
The Foreign Office’s top civil servant has been forced to make a spectacular U-turn after he earlier said the UK’s decision to not take part in European Union schemes to secure equipment to combat coronavirus was “political.” Sir Simon McDonald, made the false claim...
Coronavirus: conceptual failures
I remember once, in our first house, we had a cat flap in the back door which led into the kitchen. One night, our own cat decided to invite a dozen or so of his friends in for a party. But, when I blundered in to get a drink in the early morning, they all took...
Lord Adonis RIDICULED for claiming UK should help fund massive EU bailout
TalkRADIO host Mike Graham has ridiculed Lord Adonis, after the Labour peer suggested that the United Kingdom should contribute towards the huge European Union bailout fund following the coronavirus crisis despite the UK already leaving the bloc. Lord Adonis was...
Coronavirus: the lockdown dilemma
We are now seeing a number of media reports suggesting that the rate of new Covid-19 infections is slackening off. And, by reference to NHS England figures for deaths, we can see that the number peaked on 8 April (currently at 803) and has been on the decline ever...
Robert Tyler: China is targeting our Commonwealth friends and allies. We need a united front against it.
Robert Tyler is a Project Manager for the Alliance of Conservatives & Reformists in Europe. Much attention has been given to the role that Chinese Communist party has played in failing to report on the spread of COVID-19 in its own country – thus allowing it to...
Johnson, the Sunday Times and the virus. The Remainer losers have learnt nothing from the EU referendum and last year’s election.
“They came on in the same old way,” the Duke of Wellington said of the Bonaparist troops after the Battle of Waterloo, “and we saw them off in the same old way.” So the recuperating Boris Johnson might also say this evening. Yesterday’s...
Coronavirus: comprehensively missing the point
Yesterday's Insight article from the Sunday Times has triggered a sharp response from the Department of Health, unusual in itself as the government usually maintains a dignified silence when attacked by the media.This time round, though, a government spokesman pulls...
PM reaffirms there will be no extension to the post-Brexit transition period
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will continue to reject any attempts to extend the post-Brexit transition period, a spokesman for Number 10 has said. The spokesman said the United Kingdom needs the “legislative and economic flexibility” of being fully outside the bloc....
Coronavirus: perpetrating the errors
The cases reported yesterday were 5,526, with the deaths at 888. This brings the total, officially recognised cases to 114,217, with 15,464 hospital patients dead – and many more besides. Meanwhile, the Sunday Times insight team is on the case, offering a detailed...
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