Daniel Hannan: EU is 'in a democratic mess'
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The European Union is an economic demographic and democratic mess writes Daniel Hannan.
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The Total Politics Top Political Journalists
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
For the second year running, Total Politics has conducted it's Top 100 Journalists poll , asking its readers, MPs and journalists themselves to vote. 1. (+3) Nick Robinson 2. (-1) Evan Davis 3. (-1) Jeremy Paxman 4. (+9) Adam Boulton 5. (+18) Eddie Mair 6. (+1) Andrew Marr 7. (+22) Jon Snow 8. (+3) Quentin Letts 9. (+22) James Naughtie 10. (-4) Martha Kearney 11. (-1) Peter Riddell 12. (-9) Matthew...
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Lady Catherine Ashton is EU Foreign Minister: Baronness Catherine Ashton is EU High Representative
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Britain's Lady Catherine Margaret Ashton will become the new European Union's (EU) foreign policy minister to serve under new EU President Herman van Rompuy of Belgium. She replaces Javier Solana. Lady Catherine Ashton Lady Ashton (52), or formally Baroness Ashton of Upholland, is married to Peter Kellner, the President of YouGov, a pollster, commentator and journalist. Ashton is a member of Labour,...
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A President of Europe? When did we ask for that?
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
One thing is clear about the new EU president who will be named at a private dinner in Brussels: whoever it is you won't have had any say says Daniel Hannan.
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In Europe a heated battle is waging between the EU and national sovereignty.
Values Voter News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Check out this video of arguments between what Gordon Brown and opponents in heated discussion from 03/2009 concerning the EU and the will of the people. In below video you have a more recent discussion now that the Lisbon Treaty was signed by Ireland. Months later the UK public voted and they voted against Gordon Brown's Labor Party big time. See UK's labour party takes the worst showing since 1918...
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Hannan wins award
TalkCarswell.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Congratulations to Daniel Hannan for winning an award for the best political blog. He was presented with the Bastiat Prize for online journalism . Is this a case of an MEP winning the top prize for journalism? Or is he a writer who also happens to be an MEP? That's the beautiful thing about the internet. It breaks down the barriers. Merit becomes the only currency that counts. Established professions...
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Twitterers amongst the most liberal in Britain
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I'm going back into my old school in the morning to work with the alumni networks project for state schoolers I'm involved with, FutureFirst . In preparing for this, and for speaking on the panel of the launch of the Young Fabian blog last night, I got to wondering why all my schoolmates are avid Facebook users, while all the people I know in politics are addicted to...
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Capitalism is not what brought about our economic disaster actually the poor need capitalism. Poverty has dropped 64% from 1970 to 2006 despite increase of population.
Values Voter News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
1976 Nobel Prize winner in Economics. Daniel Hannan economically conservative politician from the UK. Values Voter News agrees with Daniel Hannan. See CSPAN Video of Geithner admitting that the perceived government safety net of financial institutions distorted the free market Obama administration admitting that Fannie and Freddie were a "core part" of the country's financial woes And a recent...
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Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Here is what is coming up in tonight's programme: The 21st Century has been dubbed the Asian Century - the era in which Western domination will end and the countries of Asia, particularly China, will grow in strategic, political and economic power. Tonight, we will be looking at the challenge the West faces and our Economics Editor Paul Mason will be explaining how the Toyota Prius - the world's first...
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Divorcing Europe, a radio discussion this evening
Lightwater (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Alerted by Iain Dale’s blog, I’ll be listening to BBC Radio 4’s Analysis: Divorcing Europe programme at 8.30 pm this evening. It’s good to see they include MEP Daniel Hannan in the line up. It’s only a 30 minute programme, so a pretty short overview of the key arguments. Its’ taken many years, but this subject is [...]
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The Great EU Debate
Daniel1979 Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The Tax Payers Alliance last week launched The Great EU Debate which is a cross-party effort to encourage public debate on the future of Britains EU membership. As part of the lauch they are giving away 5,000 copies of the book Ten Years On, Britain Without The EU . Additionally the TPS is conducting numerous interviews with people on all sides of the arguement. Here is Daniel Hannan's cogent contribution....
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"The Glorious Revolution"
The Monarchist (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
It was the years 1688 and 1689. King James II of England and Ireland, VII of Scotland was deposed. William of Orange came to replace him. It was on November 15, 1688 – the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot – that William of Orange landed at Torbay in Devon. November 5, you say? Well, in the Julian Calendar, yes. King James II & VII “The Glorious Revolution” was arguably neither...
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Daniel Hannan MEP advocates an Independent Britain
The Final Redoubt (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
"Get the power BACK" The shouldn't have been given it, in the first place.
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This column will change your life: Anger | Oliver Burkeman
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Is it the best fun you can have with your clothes on? Certain facts about human psychology are so obvious, so undeniable, that they become invisible, and we act as if they weren't true at all. For example: anger can be fun. "It feels a lot like the first rush of an opiate – a tingling warmth on the insides of your elbows and wrists, in the back of your knees," the American cartoonist...
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The City Under Threat & Britain and...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The City Under Threat & Britain and the EU: The CrunchEconomist Professor Tim Congdon warns of the dangers posed by the EU’s unwarranted interference in the City of London. Daniel Hannan MEP discussed the Lisbon Treaty and the continuing assault on our democracy and our freedom. He also talked about the coming crunch between Britain and Europe.Click here to listen online to Professor Tim