The environmental movement is not explicitly pro-war and at times its loudest advocates have even been openly anti-war. But when it comes to what green parties and mainstream parties enacting green legislation actively accomplish, the story becomes quite different. It is easy to passionately scream “no war for oil” but […]
In 1965, Lee Kuan Yew wept as Singapore was kicked out of the relatively newly formed Malaysia, a state which after 1959 united Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak. From the beginning, Singapore was the proverbial ‘odd man out’ when contrasted with the rest of Malaysia. Whilst ethnic Han Chinese […]
There exist no pair of countries in the world among which a trading arrangement is contingent on political union. There exist no pair of countries in the world among which a trading agreement is contingent on one country dictating which third countries the second party can also trade with. There […]
As was warned by some (although far too few) in 2011, David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s vandalism of the British constitution in the form of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act was bound not only to stifle democracy but create a major crisis one day. That day is now. With opposition […]
Over the weekend, London was home to demonstrations whose participants sought to thwart the democratic will of the people as expressed in the Brexit referendum. Among the protesters were individuals burning the flag of the United Kingdom (the Union flag) as well as (at least) one protester who held a […]
Of the many great follies inherent in political pan-Europeanism, the varied and necessarily hostile concepts of nationhood across Europe are the most intractable. As such, these follies are better defined as a monolithic problem that has been made worse by an attempt at a solution – a solution that since […]
Something is rotten in the land of Magna Carta. Whilst the events which transpired at Runnymede in 1215 have indeed set in motion a tradition in which liberty has tended to expand rather than contract, two world wars and one Tony Blair later and liberty is once again on the […]
Unlike his predecessor who voted to remain in the European Union, new UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been adamant that if no new agreement between Brussels and Westminster can be reached by the 31st of October he is willing, ready and able to pursue a withdrawal from the European […]
News headlines have been dominated by the Iranian oil tanker that was seized by British troops off the coast of Gibraltar. Whilst both London and Tehran acknowledge that the tanker was en route to Syria’s Mediterranean coast, the media of both countries have failed to explain why the tanker did […]
To the wider world, Jeremy Hunt is most famous for the many times that radio and television presenters mispronounced his surname whilst he has more recently gained notoriety for being “that boring guy trying to debate Boris Johnson”. Therefore it might come as a surprise to many that Jeremy Hunt […]