Macron doctrine of “Nothing is negotiable, everything is applicable” is derided as “a kind of blindness”
Yesterday in the House of Commons a motion was debated on the Northern Ireland Protocol, proposed by Sir Bernard Jenkin MP and supported by many senior MPs on the Conservative and DUP benches. At 3.13 pm the Deputy Speaker declared the motion “resolved” (agreed).
“We will not have long to wait” for action on N.I. Protocol
Government accepts this is “the overwhelming mood of this House”, supports backbench motion
In emphatic tones — at times…
The Brexit Party’s MEPs have been compared to Nazis because they turned their backs on the European Union’s ‘national anthem’ at the opening of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
First, the European Union is a corrupt, anti-democratic, and increasingly authoritarian institution whose policies on everything from open borders (pro) to free speech (against) have inflicted enormous misery on people across the European continent. So, publicly to display your disdain for such an abhorrent polity, as those Brexit MEPs did…
August 2021 has been a grim week in Afghanistan when Biden the President of the US pulled out the US military without consulting its Allies it sent shock waves all around the world. Not least in the UK where we have been a staunch Allie of America for decades.
The…
Son of Thomas Denman, the first Lord Denman (1779–1854), Lord Chief Justice he entered into the British Royal Navy on the 7 April 1823. By 9 March 1831, he was promoted to Lieutenant.
In 1840 his ship was off the coast of Sierra Leone-Liberia as part of the West African…
For what it's worth I am going to show a few things that I think will happen in the US in the next four years.
We are going to see prices shoot up especially fuel prices. Biden has already said that Fracking will be banned something that he vehemently denied…
Yesterday in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg something extraordinary happened. It’s called ‘compelling viewing’ and that’s not something one sees every day during the usually slow grind of EU speechifying.
In diplomatic terms, the President of the EU Commission effectively shouted at the Prime Minister of Poland and he shouted…
Political organisations can sometimes ‘fudge’ awkward issues and this is nowhere more true than in the long and bureaucratic corridors of Brussels. When it comes to reporting economic information, however, it gets more difficult to hide uncomfortable truths.
Since 01 January this year, it seems the EU has been treating…
Remember when the EU Commission forbade all contact between EU member countries and Brexit Britain? All that has now changed, with EU national governments now cutting out Brussels and visiting Britain to hold direct, high-level talks with the UK Government.
Yesterday (11 Oct 2021) the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss hosted…
Let us look at the latest numbers granted permission to come and work — UK and EU.
On Friday (08 Oct 2021) the EU released its figures for last year and I have analysed the figures for visitors granted the right to work for more than three months, both in the UK and in the EU in 2020. Many sets of statistics are of course distorted when…
It pays to keep on top of EU matters if you don't get to see things like this.
More than 10,000 Syrians have applied for international protection in the EU+ during the first two months of 2021, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) notes in the latest Country of Origin…
