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De Gaulle knew it: Britain does not belong in the EU
‘England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines…
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‘England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines…
The ‘leave’ campaign is right not to lay out a plan for Britain’s future
The ‘remain’ campaign is having some success with the line that the ‘leave’ camp cannot say what Britain outside the…
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The ‘remain’ campaign is having some success with the line that the ‘leave’ camp cannot say what Britain outside the…
An object lesson in PR from David Cameron and Justin Welby
I don’t think there is a Royal College of Public Relations, but if there were, it should teach a course…
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I don’t think there is a Royal College of Public Relations, but if there were, it should teach a course…
Hate tax havens? Try imagining a world without them
However wicked tax evasion is and however distasteful some tax avoidance may be, people should imagine a world without tax…
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However wicked tax evasion is and however distasteful some tax avoidance may be, people should imagine a world without tax…
The Lahore attacks reflected hatred of Christians. Why must we deny it?
You might expect that the murder of Christians would excite particular horror in countries of Christian heritage. Yet almost the…
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You might expect that the murder of Christians would excite particular horror in countries of Christian heritage. Yet almost the…
How Cameron and Osborne lost so much of their party
Why have David Cameron and George Osborne overreached? Why are so many in their own party no longer disposed to…
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Why have David Cameron and George Osborne overreached? Why are so many in their own party no longer disposed to…
Two foreign leaders could swing the EU referendum: Erdogan and Assad
Do Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Bashar Assad support ‘leave’ or ‘remain’ in Britain’s EU referendum? I ask because they are…
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Do Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Bashar Assad support ‘leave’ or ‘remain’ in Britain’s EU referendum? I ask because they are…
Brexit is none of Mark Carney's business
Surely there is a difference between Mark Carney’s intervention in the Scottish referendum last year and in the EU one…
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Surely there is a difference between Mark Carney’s intervention in the Scottish referendum last year and in the EU one…
Trade comes before trade agreements (but the ‘in’ campaign don’t think so)
The government, or at least David Cameron’s bit of it, seems to think that trade is something that takes place…
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The government, or at least David Cameron’s bit of it, seems to think that trade is something that takes place…
Why does no one in the cabinet admit to being a Europhile?
One of the oddest features of the cabinet majority for staying in the EU is that almost no one in…
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One of the oddest features of the cabinet majority for staying in the EU is that almost no one in…
The amazing story of the married woman and the future Pope John Paul II
In his authoritative biography of Pope John Paul II, George Weigel writes lucidly about the unlucid subject of phenomenology. It…
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In his authoritative biography of Pope John Paul II, George Weigel writes lucidly about the unlucid subject of phenomenology. It…
Why the next Tory leader is likely to be in the ‘Leave’ camp
Here is a thought for all those Tory MPs calculating their personal advantage in the forthcoming EU referendum: unless the…
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Here is a thought for all those Tory MPs calculating their personal advantage in the forthcoming EU referendum: unless the…
Why must David Cameron insult Oxford, when it gave him so much?
In 2000, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, accused Magdalen College, Oxford, of class bias in failing to…
