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“Thomas Jefferson would have strongly advised us against it”
Igor Judge, who retired as Lord Chief Justice in September, says that British courts are not obliged to follow the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights, and that the Human Rights Act should be...
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“Yes, you may lose out”
Jonathan Portes is in trouble for something he said on Nick Robinson’s programme, “The Truth About Immigration” (which I didn’t see but his article in the Mail on Sunday seemed fair to me): I think...
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How many Tory MPs really want to leave the EU?
I do not believe that there are as many as 95 Conservative MPs who really want to leave the EU, but I have taken the dunderheadedness that gives the opposite impression as the subject of my column in...
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The Tory Fifth Column
Matthew Parris has a furious attack on the Tory fifth column in The Times today (pay wall): I believe that a group of Conservative backbench MPs — quite a small group, much smaller than what the news...
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Judo Leadership, or Appeasement?
Are parliamentary tactics like an evolutionary arms race? John Rentoul explains
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Peak UKIP
UKIP is in decline from now on, I argue in The Independent on Sunday today. The foremost academics who study the party, Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin, were politer in their assessment of its showing...
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“No, we don’t want an in-out referendum”: Ed Miliband, right first time
“No, we don’t want an in-out referendum,” Ed Miliband told the House of Commons in January last year. There was uproar, and afterwards Ed Balls told him off for not adding “now” at the end of the...
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Never Closer Union, part 2
Further to my previous post, a footnote on Ed Miliband’s article in the Financial Times (limited free access). He says that “ever closer union” – the phrase that David Cameron wants to excise from the...
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New Zealand Butter All Over Again
David Cameron’s plan for European renegotiation and referendum became clearer in an important interview with Andrew Marr this morning (transcript here). It is not quite New Zealand butter – Harold...
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Blair is un-Blairite on free movement of EU workers
I agree with Ed Miliband and disagree with Tony Blair about Europe in my column for The Independent on Sunday today. Here is a graph that shows the relative success of Miliband and Yvette Cooper’s...
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Merkel’s Misjudgement
I may have been too harsh on David Cameron in my column for The Independent on Sunday today. I said it did not bode well for his hopes of renegotiating British terms of EU membership that he had...
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If Miliband got it right, Cameron would be finished
A bit slow getting to the article in yesterday’s Times (pay wall) by Dominic Cummings, Michael Gove’s brilliant former special adviser. He says he recently conducted focus groups in marginal...
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