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The police's inaction over Extinction Rebellion is criminally disturbing
Tweet something unwoke and you’ll have your collar felt.
Daniel Hannan
Tweet something insufficiently woke and you'll have your collar felt. Deliberately and determinedly destroy private property and the cops will halt the traffic to give you a clear run.
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The EU's new negotiating stance is laughably deceitful
If Brussels carries on with its bizarre behaviour, Britain has no choice but to ditch talks
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Daniel Hannan
If these really are the EU's terms, we should save everyone time by walking away now. No self-respecting country should accept a deal offered in a vindictive spirit.
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How the UK can pioneer digital free trade
Outside of the EU, it is vitally important that the UK develops a trade policy that is structured around the specific strengths of the British economy. One such strength is the trade in digital goods and services. The government should therefore...
Why have so many of our recent viruses come from bats?
I’m no Nostradamus, but 20 years ago when I was commissioned to write a short book about disease in the new millennium, I predicted that if a new pandemic did happen it would be a virus, not a…
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Daniel Hannan
You know who predicted the coronavirus 20 years ago - or at least predicted that a virus of this nature would pass from bats to human beings, as has now happened? The great @mattwridley. He's a genius - a genius, I tell you.
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China 'open and ready' for trade talks with UK, top diplomat says
The Chinese ambassador to London, Liu Xiaoming, says UK officials have also expressed "willingness" to restart talks.
EU trade chief backs Britain on Canada deal
The EU’s trade commissioner has given Britain’s call for a Canada-style trading relationship a boost by assuring national parliaments that the Canadian deal has “legally binding and enforceable” rules
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Daniel Hannan
The Barnier line is basically "We are angry about Brexit, so you must have worse terms than anyone else, even if that hurts us as much as you". Fine, whatever. But how extraordinary that some Brits are now so bitter and warped that they are applauding him.
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'Hollywood coming to UK' in new studio plans
US company Blackhall Studios wants to build a movie-making complex at Thames Valley Science Park.
Daniel Hannan
The extraordinary cluster of tech companies in the Thames Valley is joined by a major US film-maker. #GlobalBritain
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Boris Bounce goes on as UK employment rate reaches new record high
The number of people in work increased 180,000 to 32.9 million in the quarter to December, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, boosted by a 'strong' rise in women working full-time.
Daniel Hannan: Alarmism, doom-mongering, panic – and the coronavirus. We are nowhere near a 1919-style catastrophe.
Nothing I have written should be taken as a suggestion that we drop our guard or stop taking precautions. But, assuming we do that, there is no reason to panic. Cheer up.
Conferencia Patrik Schumacher
Arquitecto principal desde el primer proyecto de Zaha Hadid Architects. Junto con Hadid, es coautor de casi todas las obras de la firma. Es asimismo fundador y codirector del Laboratorio de Investigación de la AA (Architectural Association) en...
Daniel Hannan
¿Estás por casualidad en Guatemala este viernes?
landings.ufm.edu/reason/?utm_so… pic.twitter.com/Os1H3WeZ1m
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Daniel Hannan
Guatemaltecos. Estaré en UFM este viernes, discutiendo por qué América Latina no ha seguido políticamente a Norteamérica. ¡Q vengan!
landings.ufm.edu/reason/?utm_so… pic.twitter.com/yAJfPR78dj
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Guilt by association at Rome’s National Conservatism Conference
This week’s National Conservatism Conference in Rome was an important meeting of national conservatives from all over the world. Sadly, it has been sullied by disgusting attacks from British liberals…
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Daniel Hannan
Even by the standards of the Guardian, it was extraordinary to smear as "anti-Semitic" a conference organised by @yhazony of the Herzl Institute. Disappointing to see both @BoardofDeputies and a Tory spokesman jumping in without knowing the facts.
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Disgraceful smearing of a conservative conference
Disgraceful smearing of a conservative conference
Joint Statement on UK participation in DEPA, and COP strategy
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Daniel Hannan
This is significant. The directors of five trade-oriented institutes and think-tanks have come together to urge the government to pursue two specific trade objectives - one on digital commerce and one on open plurilateralism. Via @IFTtweets.
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Police use emergency powers to close city roads
Officers are using emergency powers to close two city centre roads.
Ireland just stepped back from democracy
Ireland has just become the first European Union state to elect a party with an armed wing. Sinn Féin, which won last week’s general election on first-preference votes (though it is second, by one seat, in parliamentary representation) has long been...
Daniel Hannan
Imagine that, at the end of a fraught argument in a parliamentary committee, a Sinn Féin politician were to mutter to an opponent: “We know where your daughters go to school”.
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The week in podcasts and radio: We Need to Talk About the British Empire; Cyrano for Hire
The legacy of British colonialism is looked at through six family histories – plus a love letter to love letters
It is appalling that Sinn Fein, a party with its own paramilitary wing, is now accepted at the top table of politics
I’m not sure people appreciate the enormity of what has happened in Ireland.
Daniel Hannan
Paradoxically, Sinn Féin's victory will strengthen the Union. Moderate voters in Northern Ireland, in both communities, will recoil from joining a SF-led state - especially if the party gets to implement its Corbynite economic policies.
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Daniel Hannan
The EU reacted to the election of the FPÖ by sanctioning Austria. The US reacted to the election of Hamas by freezing its economic links to Palestine. But there will be no international outrage about the election in Ireland of a party with a private army.
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Edinburgh-based Aegon UK wins notable vote of confidence from Dutch owners
AEGON has said it wants to grow its UK business amid the uncertainty around Brexit following a change at the top of the operation.
Ici Londres: Democracy or quangos: pick one
Daniel Hannan
If you're a newly-appointed minister, congratulations - and be ready for your department to run itself as if you weren't there.
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