Daniel Hannan

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Daniel Hannan

As symbolism goes, the physical dropping of the US trade deal was hard to beat. Donald Trump and Keir Starmer were both at the G7 summit in Alberta, and their officials decided that it was a splendid opportunity for the two men to sign the agreement that was cobbled together last month on the suspension of some tariffs. There they stood, the leaders of the two greatest Anglophone democracies, breathing the pine and spruce-scented air.

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Daniel Hannan

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020 and is now President of the Institute for Free Trade. A curious thing about politics in the 1970s was how calm it was. The country was collapsing: a three-day week, prices and incomes policies, endless strikes, power cuts. The Cold War was going badly, and many feared that the Labour Left was a Soviet fifth column. The National Front was making its ugly presence felt.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Daniel Hannan

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Daniel Hannan

It was little things that made me fall in love with Britain. You didn’t have to count your change in shops. You almost never saw private security guards. You could drink from the tap. You could flick a switch and the light would actually come on. You could get into a taxi, confident, not only that you wouldn’t be mugged, but that you’d be driven by the shortest route and charged the correct fare. If you stopped at a red light, you would not have every car behind you hooting in fury.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Daniel Hannan

Dull is the eye that will not weep to seeThy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removedBy British hands…The campaign for the return of the Elgin Marbles began almost from the moment of their removal. Byron’s lines have been quoted for two centuries by restitutionists. If there were a way to restore the mouldering shrines to the Parthenon itself, it would surely have happened by now. Who could resist making whole the Temple of Athena? There would be no need for long-term loans.