Think of some of the more bizarre interpretations that have come out of the European Court of Human Rights. How does the ‘right to a family life’ allow illegal immigrants to defy deportation orders? How did ‘freedom of expression’ come to encompass pornography in prison cells? How does the prohibition of torture mean that a [...]
It looks like denial. Greeks want the euro, but not the austerity it requires. Germans want the euro but not the tax-rises it demands. In fact, what we're seeing is a form of cognitive dissonance. From the first, the euro was aggressively promoted as a way to boost growth. Indeed, the most surreal thing about [...]
I have no idea how people will vote when the In/Out referendum comes, but I’ve noticed one thing: whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers – our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, [...]
An EU referendum is starting to look inevitable. As the great Finkelstein put it the other day: The question of whether there will be, or should be, a referendum on our continued membership and the terms of that membership is the hottest topic in politics. Too late. We’ve already made that decision. There will be [...]
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in [...]
You might think that, what with everything that's going on in Spain and Greece, Eurocrats had plenty on their plates. You'd be wrong. The EU's cupidity is unsleeping, for all that its recent initiatives have been driven from our news pages by the travails of the eurozone. You almost certainly haven't read anything about the [...]
Supporters of the euro, in Athens and in Brussels, have been quick to proclaim victory. Greek Euro-enthusiasts congratulated their countrymen on their level-headedness, while EU officials indicated that the country might be rewarded with a slight relaxation of the bailout terms. Yet there is something contrived, rehearsed even, about the triumphalism. Look, after all, at [...]
So we're going to 'inject £140 billion into the economy,' are we? Wow. Who knew it was that easy? Why not inject £280 billion and be twice as rich? Why not a trillion? I can't believe I keep having to write this, but we got into this mess in the first place because there was [...]
Muntjac deer (“Muntiacus reeves”) are small but they reproduce quickly. They are fast becoming a major threat to wildlife. Because they tend not to eat agricultural crops, they are not controlled by farmers so they are in danger of ‘eating out’ the floors of English deciduous woodlands – which are so important to biodiversity. These [...]
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