Daniel Hannan

This, by @RobertJenrick, is spot on. We won't begin to control our borders until judges stop ruling on the basis of what they want the law to say rather than what it says. In the mean time, we need get into the habit of identifying and interrogating them.

Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick

If judges step into the political arena, they should expect a political response. I demand accountability when judges display open-borders activism. Labour’s Justice Secretary backs them up. Watch the full exchange here👇 https://t.co/NemdiRYQDc

By the way, when was the last time that the Archbishopric of Canterbury and the Papacy were simultaneously vacant? Any advance on 1691, following the removal of William Sancroft and the death of Alexander VIII? https://t.co/j8iLB2fNVA

Church attendance is rising while the number of DEI officers falls. Two unrelated trends? No. Woke was always a substitute religion. "For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."

I think the plan is to put the entire country in the House of Lords. Then oligarchic power would remain in the hands of the few hundred people who still had the right to elect the Commons. https://t.co/lnXEDBKDG3

I think we can all agree that the choice of next Archbishop of Canterbury comes down to @WalkerMarcus versus @_F_B_G_. But which?

Several European capitals - including Paris, Brussels and The Hague - genuinely have the weather that London is falsely reputed to have. https://t.co/yYPg1s6eFH

As he lay dying of tuberculosis, Burke's son, then aged 36, asked his father for words of comfort. But Burke was too grief-stricken to speak. The greatest orator of his age, he could say nothing.

Capel Lofft @CapelLofft

Burke almost ended up with the title that later went to Disraeli: https://t.co/SKARoHwkcl

The woke Left are being replaced by what @KonstantinKisin calls the woke Right. The sorts of people who make a point of referring to the Tory leader as Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke. and who assume that a black woman can't possibly be anti-immigration. https://t.co/InL4fZZv04

I read it recently. In his version of the civil war, the king is unreasonably beset by Puritan fanatics. Sure, he was not a party man. But he was avowedly anti-Whig. Anyway, Happy Easter, Andrew.

Andrew Neil @afneil

Dear, dear Daniel. Time to move on. In general Hume eschewed any party classifications. But if you read Hume’s History of England it’s clearly written from a Whiggish perspective. And no less an authority than Adam Smith described him as a ‘moderate Whig’.

Surely David Hume was a Tory, by the way.

Andrew Neil @afneil

Your original tweet said Jefferson’s original draft of the declaration of independence made a specific attack on Scotland. He didn’t. Jefferson had great reverence for Scotland. His target was Scottish Highlanders recruited to fight for the loyalist cause. He designated them

Scots were hardly foreign mercenaries. They were fighting for their king. You know - I remember discussing Kevin Phillips's book with you when it came out 25 years ago - that, of all the American Loyalists, those who fought hardest were the Highlanders settled in two main

Andrew Neil @afneil

Jefferson was referring to Scots mercenaries (he called them Scotch, the parlance of the time) fighting for the Crown. It wasn’t an attack on Scotland, for which he had a high regard. Not did he see Scotland as anything like you say. He regarded Scotland as the epicentre of the

Since the beginning of the last decade, freedom, and the Enlightenment ideas on which it rests, have been in retreat globally. Why? https://t.co/rq9I0mYAjN