“A resumption of normal service”
The Telegraph has a scoop. This might not go down too well in the working class areas: Exclusive: Philip Hammond tells business chiefs MPs will stop no-deal Brexit Philip Hammond told business leaders...
View ArticleRemoaner MPs
They dislike the treaty but fear a clean Brexit, They hope that – in more ways than one – they can fix it. Too statist to say, even at their most livid, “Take back control? Look at us, to whom you’ll...
View ArticleYou say that like it’s a bad thing, Mr Soros
The EU could collapse in the same way the Soviet Union did, George Soros warns Back in 1991/92, when the Soviet Union had just collapsed and the UKIP party had just formed to fight the...
View ArticleThe Art of (No) Deal
Via Instapundit I came across this fine editorial from the New York Sun: “Sometimes You Have To Walk” The collapse of President Trump’s summit with the North Korean party boss, Kim Jong Un, certainly...
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Agreeing to disagree
Inevitably, a parliament that can agree on nothing can agree on a two-week delay. Hilariously, it’s the EU that protects us from longer delay – they disliked the last time Brits voted on them too much...
View ArticleOh, beware my Country
Build on the flanks of Etna where the sullen smoke-puffs float — Or bathe in tropic waters where the lean fin dogs the boat — Cock the gun that is not loaded, cook the frozen dynamite — But oh, beware...
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The balance of forces
Guido presents evidence that we have God on our side, along with the Queen, 63% of voters, a large part of an infuriated Tory party, and the army (or at least, the parachute regiment – I’ve lived next...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“When hedge-fund managers and the Communist Party see eye-to-eye on any question, it’s time to be concerned.” – Peter Oborne, writing in OpenDemocracy.
View ArticleResisting ethnic prejudice by other means
Germany resists islamophobia. German law seeks to purge the public domain of such offensive views. Germany also resists anti-semitism. The German government’s anti-semitism commissioner has warned Jews...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“The precautionary principle is a gigantic paternalistic arm around humanity to keep all risk at bay.” – Philip Johnston, Daily Telegraph. (Item behind paywall.) I have friends and relations in the EU...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“America innovates, China duplicates and Europe regulates.” – Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph, (behind paywall). (He is writing about the EU’s Precautionary Principle and generally silly approach to new...
View ArticleThe EU stands up for financial privacy (yes, really)
For once (yes, it happens) the legal authorities of the EU are in the right, in my view, and their critics are wrong, contrary to what Henry Williams, author of this article in CapX, says. A top EU...
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