Douglas Carswell A French presidential election is due in a couple of weeks. Should one care? Will the outcome change anything? Not, I suspect, if incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy wins. We’ll have more Euro summitry and muppetry.  More bailout and borrow economics. More talk of reform, without much change.  Not to mention, more of the Love Actuallywith  [ Read More ]

Douglas Carswell From last week, you’ll need to have worked for someone else for two years, rather than just one, before you can drag them to an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal. Good. Those who use their energy, effort and capital to create wealth – and work – should not be tied down by tribunals.  Quite apart  [ Read More ]

Samuel Walker It’s a familiar story; the 99% are drowning in debt, they have no jobs, they’re on the brink of financial collapse and their only hope is to balance their books by taxing, stealing or begging the money off the banks. The 1% has listened attentively to what the 99% have to say, and  [ Read More ]

Jonny Goggs In an interview with The Atlantic, Benjamin Netanyahu asserted the following: “The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.” This month, with the former goal seemingly stalling, it is the latter that has been brought into sharp focus. The Iranian regime, the West’s bête noire  [ Read More ]

Douglas Carswell Saving the Euro, suggest ministers, will restore economic growth to Britain. It is, they imply, the most important thing we must do to ensure our own recovery. Perhaps if the single currency was such a panacea for growth, we’d have seen a little more of it in stagnant Euroland this past ten years?  [ Read More ]

John Redwood The UK has no need to fear Germany. The UK has no need to be impolite to Germany. The UK should resist the temptation to lecture Germany on how to lead the Euro zone. There are unwelcome signs that the UK/EU relationship is becoming strained. The Coalition government seems nervous about the impact  [ Read More ]

People’s Pledge How long will Tory re-negotiationists now give their ‘campaign’ of wrestling back powers from Brussels before they accept that the real choice is in or out of the EU? 1 year, 10 years, 100 years? A senior British government source has told the Daily Telegraph that there will be no repatriation of powers  [ Read More ]

John Redwood Don’t expect the euphoria over a new Italian government to last long. There is no need to share it. The markets enjoyed a relief rally on news of a new government forming in Italy. The European establishment is behind Mr Monti, so we should expect the ECB and the spin machine to try  [ Read More ]