President Obama’s State of the Union address set the stall for the November election and confirmed, if any confirmation was necessary, his socialist credentials.
Of course the word ‘socialist’ is seldom used in the US, and then only to describe Europeans. Americans are never socialist; they are ‘liberal’, a misnomer if I ever heard [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday I spent an unedifying hour in the Unemployment Committee. With the EU’s manic six-month rotating presidency, we’re treated twice a year to the prospect of seeing the relevant ministers from the country holding the presidency, who come to present their sparkly new plans, only to retire hurt a few months later. The system [...]
Continue Reading →Croatia is a delightful country with wonderful beaches on its Adriatic coast-line, and historic cities like Dubrovnik and Split. A popular tourist destination, it has a place in European history, and claims to have invented the neck-tie.
I have spent a certain amount of time on the issue of Croatia’s proposed accession to the [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve just returned from a week in the European parliament in Strasbourg, where Rupert Matthews was a guest of the Conservative delegation. But while the delegation made Rupert welcome in Strasbourg, Central Office has not had a lot to say to him, or to me, or to East Midlands Conservatives, recently. But according [...]
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