If you cannot convince them, confuse them
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France and current holder of the EU Presidency, is finally in the press for the right reasons. He was credited with ‘brokering’ a ceasefire between Russia and Georgia last...
View ArticleBudget and the Beast
Chris Heaton-Harris, Conservative MEP and member of the Audit Committee of the European Parliament, has published a ‘rough guide to the EU budget’. The brief guide tries to make sense of the draft...
View ArticleA Marriage of Convenience
Czech president Václav Klaus has said he will support Declan Ganley if he launches Libertas (the organisation which led the campaign for Ireland to vote ‘No’ to the Lisbon Treaty) as a pan-EU political...
View ArticleUK education perpetuating, not breaking, poverty cycle
While New Labour’s aim in education has been to generate greater equality, a damning report from the OECD written up in this week’s Times Education Supplement, states that the UK education system...
View Article‘Make Britain Great Again’-How the Tories could loosen Britain’s ties with...
In an interview held with the The Sunday Times yesterday, former Tory leader William Hague emphasized that, should the Tories win power in 2009 or 2010, a ‘Conservative government could still hold a...
View ArticleMore EU hot air blown on financial crisis
Open Europe, the independent think tank backed by some of the UK’s leading business people, has produced the first independent report estimating of the cost and wider effects of the EU’s new package of...
View ArticleEurope gets its choice for the White House
At the forefront of global affairs last week was the election of the next US President, Barack Obama. As the leader of the ‘free world’ the US President wields such significant power that it...
View ArticleNew Year, New Crisis
2008 went out with a proverbial bang as the Russo-Ukrainian dispute threatened to, and eventually did, plunge Europe into an energy crisis, writes Lara Natale. As the bells chimed midnight ringing in...
View ArticleA Very Big 'If'
Since 1999, the size of the NHS workforce has increased by 29 per cent. One in every 19 people in Britain now works for it. A chief architect of that increase is Ed Balls, between 1990 and 2004 chief...
View ArticleWas Alan Johnson Right to Call for Professor Nutt's Resignation?
Many prominent scientists are currently up in arms over the Home Secretary’s call for Professor David Nutt to resign as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) for having...
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