Peace in our time? New START is President Obama’s Neville Chamberlain moment
Ronald Reagan would have rejected this treaty. Margaret Thatcher would have warned against it as Prime Minister. Winston Churchill would have abhorred any agreement that strengthened Russia’s hand....
View ArticleThe EU has failed. Who are the truly guilty men?
Being intellectually wrong isn’t the same as being morally wrong. It’s a distinction that is often forgotten in politics, where we habitually dismiss our opponents as liars, blackguards and fiends....
View ArticleGeorge Osborne's aim: be like Neville Chamberlain
I have just come across this rather excellent clip of the Chancellor of Exchequer in 1935, Neville Chamberlain, in a report by George Trefgarne on our economic policy for the Centre for Policy Studies....
View ArticleInaugural address: a defiant Obama reminds Americans why he is the most...
If anyone remains in any doubt that the next four years will be a relentless exercise in left-wing presidential radicalism, look no further than Barack Obama’s second inaugural address. This was not a...
View ArticleOn the 75th anniversary of Munich, Neville Chamberlain deserves the...
Exactly 75 years ago, two very different politicians were basking in popular applause. On 4 Oct 1938, Adolf Hitler was paying his first visit to his new domain inside the crippled state of...
View ArticleYou have to admire the Israelis – they are willing to stand up to evil and...
It is hard to have confidence in a deal struck by Barack Obama, the European Union, and the leaders of a brutal Islamist tyranny that treats any dissent with an iron fist. It smacks of the kind of ugly...
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