George West and I were among an audience of business people, local councillors and reporters at a meeting called by the Bank of England at the National Space Centre near Leicester to explain its role. It was one of a […]
Although the proposal to “Repatriate” EU law into UK law has been made both by the hardest of Brexiteers and by the Prime Minister, many independence campaigners are still distinctly uneasy at the idea that large parts of the “Acquis […]
The BBC’s Fake Britain series was not produced to make a contribution to the debate on options for UK trade once we leave the EU. However, this latest episode, which shows the identification, inspection and eventual rejection by the Port […]
The Devil, we are told, can appear as an angel of light and keen Europhiles can masquerade as sturdy defenders of parliamentary sovereignty when it suits them. Twice during the campaign, I heard senior Europhiles deplore the referendum for detracting […]
(This article was written for our Chairman’s local newspaper, the “Three villages” magazine) The leading campaigns on both sides of the EU referendum were lacking in honesty. In that, they followed the example of successive British governments which have all […]
I received an appeal from a charity I support which helps the victims of torture. It talked of an “unprecedented rise in hate crime….across the country” and claimed that “Each day the news brings stories of political upheaval and a […]
