Category: United Kingdom
Enoch Powell: The Man Who Would Have Been Prime Minister
I feel if Enoch Powell hadn’t given the speech on that fateful day, British politics could well have unravelled in a dramatically different way. We may not have joined the Common Market and remained an independent self-governing nation, carrying on … Continue reading
Theresa May’s Brexit Speech in Midst of Rising Euroscepticism
The EU is hardly showering itself in glory among its citizens, tired of a lack of accountability and a deeply controversial migration policy. Brussels would be minded to not serve a blow to European businesses, too, just to frustrate Brexit … Continue reading
Trump’s ‘Retweets’ and ‘Tweets’ Cause Diplomatic Uproar in UK
During the press conference, the Jordanians cheered as May firmly refused to condone Trump’s Tweet. Meanwhile, back in Westminster, MPs on both sides of the house lined up to say, ‘enough is enough’. Senior British diplomat and Ambassador to America, … Continue reading
Winning the Moral Argument for Brexit: Emancipating the British Economy from Fortress Europe
As long as a product states ‘Fair Trade’ on the label and promises to build new schools, nobody pauses to wonder why coffee beans grown in Africa are not being roasted and sold by Africa. In 2014 Africa made £1.6 … Continue reading
The European Spring Was Sprung, But Only a Fool Would Imagine Euroscepticism Is Dead in the UK
As I have made plain before, there is no such thing as a soft and a hard Brexit. This is little more than a narrative device enabling politicians to adopt a multitude of contradictory opinions in order to appease all … Continue reading