Forty one years ago I served on a Ministry of Agriculture committee of millers and grain merchants who had the job of preparing our trade for joining the European Common Agricultural Policy. From the abolition of the Corn Laws in 1846 […]
Chris Williamson, the MP for Derby North is, of course, right that the Royal Mail provides a vital service to homes and businesses. Britain invented the modern Post Office, using the monopoly power of the state to provide a national […]
The EU always was a project which depended on forward momentum and an appearance of inevitability. Professor Tim Congdon likened this to the belief held by Marxists in the scientific nature of their theory and the historical inevitability of its […]
George Morland (4 June 2012) is understandably angry about the effects of devolution. In the run-up to EEC membership, the Foreign Office was planning for this in 1971, as the following paper shows (Ref FCO/1048). “The transfer of major executive […]
Yet again the Government has awarded a major engineering contract to a foreign supplier – in this case to the German conglomerate Siemens when it should have gone to Derbybased train-maker Bombardier. As a direct consequence, over 1,000 jobs have […]
From Moderate Support to outright Opposition to the EU Project I was a few years younger than this audience when I first heard about the institution which is now the European Union. I was on a school trip to Germany […]
