Convulsions over Brexit and the struggle for the western nation
The West is convulsing as a new world order struggles to be born. Nowhere is that convulsion currently proving more agonizing and potentially catastrophic than in the United Kingdom. The fundamental...
View Article“No risks are greater than Mrs May’s terms of surrender” – including no deal
Three days ago, a letter of great importance about Mrs May’s faux-Brexit deal was sent to MPs. The importance lay not just in what it said but who was saying it. The authors were the former head of...
View ArticleWhy it’s imperative that Britain shows itself to be firmly behind no-deal
We all know the problem over Theresa May’s Brexit deal, don’t we. The EU insisted on its red lines, offering nothing that would allow Britain to trade outside the customs union or single market. Hence...
View ArticleThe obvious, ahem, solution to the Irish border problem
By all accounts, the penny has finally dropped in the brain of the Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. It has apparently now dawned on him that, in order to stuff the British over Brexit, the EU has played...
View ArticleIs Netanyahu making deals with the devil?
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been severely criticized for cozying up to sundry dictators, autocrats or governments that downplay or deny their country’s role in the Holocaust. Among...
View ArticleEurope starts to fray at the seams
The European parliament elections last week have provided further graphic evidence that Britain and Europe are in the throes of a profound political and cultural upheaval. In Britain, Nigel Farage’s...
View ArticleGlad, confident morning for Britain’s battling Brexiteers? Er, not quite
Suddenly Brexit has become possible, coo the newspapers this morning; and suddenly, this Brexiteer’s heart stops for the umpteenth time during this national crisis. For what they are saying has now...
View ArticleGoodbye to the demoralised past. Hello, world
At 11 pm this evening, the United Kingdom will have left the European Union. These are words that, throughout the nightmare of the past three and a half years, those of us who were solid Brexiteers...
View ArticleDavid Frost’s reflections on the revolution in Britain
Wow. The speech delivered yesterday evening at Brussels university by David Frost, who is now leading the UK’s negotiations with the EU over the post-Brexit trade deal, was a belter. Straightening his...
View ArticleThe ghastly mirror-image of lethal group-think
In Britain, there are now insistent calls for the government to lay out its strategy for exiting the Covid-19 lockdown. Treat the public as adults, goes the cry; tell us the truth. Well, the truth...
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