A special tea-time treat... WE normally don't put out a newsletter at the weekend but these times are not normal and we would like to mark this week – it has been our best ever, with readership quadrupling – by letting you know our three most popular features that made it so successful – and highlight our [...]
by Alan Sked, Emeritus Professor of International History, LSE and Founder of UKIP LET ME START with the ‘European Miracle’. By this I do not refer to the EU but to what global historians mean when they explain Europe’s exponential rise in terms of economics, commerce, technology and philosophy ahead of the Asian empires (Ottoman, Moghul, [...]
by Mev Brown ON THE 26TH OF NOVEMBER last year, in a moment of frustration bordering on anger, I tweeted: “Theresa May has returned from Europe with her #BrexitDeal What happened to #LeaveMeansLeave? Forget #BrexitShambles and #BrexitChaos this is #BetrayalMay and her government are nothing but a bunch of #Quislings” It seems that tweet was surprisingly [...]
by Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns for The Freedom Association I ASK the question because Facebook closed down the page for Leavers of Britain recently. Lucy Harris, the founder of Leavers of Britain, told me that she submitted a request for a review but then they locked it down permanently. She then kicked up a fuss and [...]
By Barnabas Reynolds THERE ARE MANY more problems with the Withdrawal Agreement than just the Backstop. Here I provide a brief summary of the issues from a state aid perspective, with a more detailed explanation on the Politeia blog to follow: 1. During the transitional period the EU will apply its state aid law to the [...]
