Daniel Hannan
Old Whig. President of @IFTtweets. Sunday Telegraph, ConHome and Washington Examiner columnist. Conservative MEP.
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Daniel Hannan | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 59
Daniel Hannan — president of the Initiative for Free Trade, UK member of the EU Parliament, and best selling author of "Inventing Freedom: How the English-Sp...
Daniel Hannan: For Brexit to work, power must be stripped from the quangorats – and returned to people we elect
Over the past three years, we have seen large chunks of our bureaucracy – civil servants, quangocrats and other officials – working to frustrate the referendum result.
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Daniel Hannan
Your luck, you blokes! 🇦🇺
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Bring on Brexit, because we're losing our minds waiting
Any lingering reputation the British had in Europe for being understated or reserved was destroyed last week at the first meeting of the new European Parliament. Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has the greatest number of British Members of the European...
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Daniel Hannan
Every day that Brexit is put off, the polarisation becomes more extreme. Repeated delays and manoeuvres are destroying the civility that used to define our politics. We HAVE to get this thing done before it gets any worse.
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Soros and Koch brothers team up to end US ‘forever war’ policy - The Boston Globe
In one of the most remarkable partnerships in modern American political history, leftist financier George Soros and the right-wing Koch brothers are uniting to revive the fading vision of a peaceable United States.
Daniel Hannan
Are you a Left-wing nutter who thinks that the Koch brothers are the source of all evil? Or a Right-wing nutter who thinks that George Soros is? Either way, brace yourself.
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Sir Roger Scruton
The New Statesman interview with Sir Roger Scruton (“Cameron's resignation was the death knell of the Conservative Party”, 10 April) generated substantial media comment and will be readily recalled by most readers. We have now met with Sir Roger and...
All the Nike flag row shows is that America has lost interest in the ideal of freedom
It’s the speed of the thing that is so unsettling.
Daniel Hannan
What is striking about the Betsy Ross flag controversy is not Nike's cowardice, but the suddenness with which everyone accepted - or pretended to accept - an obvious absurdity. America is returning to the Salem trials.
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The new EU leaders show that the Brexit Party aren't the only ones facing backwards
Where do people get the idea that Brexit is nostalgic?
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Daniel Hannan
How have so many liberal and progressive people persuaded themselves to back this elitist and anti-democratic racket? What would Wilkes or Paine or the Chartists have thought of leaders being imposed on us following a private banquet?
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As the rest of the world introduces lower, flatter taxes, Britain is falling behind
The economics are simple:
Pro-EU reporter can't accept the result
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Daniel Hannan
@afneil In retrospect, I feel I should have walked out of this interview with Tim Sebastian.
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Justin Amash: Our politics is in a partisan death spiral. That’s why I’m leaving the GOP.
The two-party system has evolved into an existential threat to American principles and institutions.
Daniel Hannan
Try the following experiment. Forget whether you are pro- or anti-Trump. Set aside whether you like or loathe @justinamash. Just read this piece as an essay on whether partisanship is damaging America, and tell me if there is anything you disagree with.
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11 US & UK Think Tanks produce the ideal free trade agreement
11 Think Tanks in US and UK draft the legal text of an Ideal Free Trade Agreement; Simultaneous launches in the UK and US stress political and commercial will of securing a deal between world’s largest and 5th largest economies; Key policy...
Ici Londres: Would you stand for the EU anthem?
Daniel Hannan
Beethoven's Ninth was popular with Maoists and Nazis, and was the national anthem of the breakaway white regime in Rhodesia. Only now, though, has that sublime piece of music become part of a culture war.
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WATCH: Ici Londres – “Would you stand for the EU anthem?”, Hannan asks
"I've always sat quietly when they perform it...I don't want to be unkind and disrespectful."
Ursula von der Leyen: Europe is forming an army
A united EU military is becoming a reality, argues Germany’s defense minister.
Labour looks at nationalising BT following proposal from Corbyn ally
Jeremy Corbyn's office had policy proposals drawn up, say multiple sources have told Yahoo Finance UK.
This Canada Day, let us commit to our cousins across the Atlantic
Happy Canada Day to the nearly 100,000 Canadians living in the UK, the 600,000 Brits living in Canada, and to the 37 million people that call Canada home! Today commemorates when the three colonies of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New...
Dan Hannan: Death at the border
What was your reaction when you saw the photograph of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria tangled in death? I have no idea, as I write these words, whether you, the reader, are conservative or liberal, white or Hispanic, a...
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Daniel Hannan
A heartbreaking photograph of a dead migrant child changes nothing - and everything.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a guidebook for the present day
It would be wise not to lean too heavily on Nineteen Eighty-Four when confronting the various challenges and terrors that lurk in our near-future
Daniel Hannan
“If the last decade has shown us anything at all, it is that a powerful totalitarian state is no longer needed to coerce human beings. People will merrily rat on each other, hurt each other and tear each other down in exchange for more Twitter followers.”
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