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2 weeks ago | 
dailybusinessgroup.co.uk | Terry Murden |Daniel Johnson
Scotland has the fewest planners per head of population of any UK nation, sparking fresh concerns about the effect this is having on investment. The most recent annual data on planning applications shows that more than one in three local development applications waited longer than the recommended two months for a decision.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Daniel Johnson
While the world was mesmerised by events in America, the ruling coalition in Europe’s biggest economy collapsed. The fall of the German government on Wednesday night may lack the drama of Donald Trump’s return, but the crisis in Berlin is yet another symptom of popular insurgency.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Daniel Johnson
Look back with envy: There was a time when German politicians understood what makes an economy tick - Helmut Kohl with Margaret Thatcher While the world was mesmerised by events in America, Europe’s biggest economy has seen its ruling coalition collapse. The fall of the German government on Wednesday night may lack the drama of Donald Trump’s return, but the crisis in Berlin is yet another symptom of popular insurgency. When Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister, Christian Lindner, who had...
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
aol.co.uk | Daniel Johnson
Has any British Prime Minister had a more catastrophic first hundred days than Sir Keir Starmer? The resignation of his chief of staff, Sue Gray, on his 94th day in office is only the latest in an almost unprecedented catalogue of misfortunes, almost all of them self-inflicted. There is one precedent, of course. Liz Truss lasted only 49 days in No 10 – but she had not just won a landslide election. Even she can blame the bond markets, just as Jim Callaghan could blame the currency markets in 1976.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Sarah Vine |Quentin Letts |Andrew Pierce |Stephen Glover |Nadine Dorries |Dan Hodges | +1 more
It was the showpiece event of the Tory leadership campaign - the four remaining contenders making their pitch to the party faithful from the conference stage. And watching Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick and Tom Tugendhat make their case were seven top Mail writers. Here, they give their verdicts on the speeches - with each choosing their winner.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Daniel Johnson
Having spent Tuesday talking his country down in London, the Prime Minister has just spent Wednesday talking Britain up in Berlin. Perhaps Sir Keir Starmer has forgotten that the Germans can read English. The Anglo-German treaty that he hopes to sign with his new best friend, Olaf Scholz, is not in itself a bad idea. But if Sir Keir believes that he has a weak hand to play, the auspices for what is certain to be a tough negotiation are poor.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
engelsbergideas.com | Daniel Johnson
Adam Zamoyski, Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess, William Collins, £25Most of us have only the roughest idea of the national histories of our European neighbours, but there are occasional public reminders to prompt further inquiry, even if they are often in poor taste – the Paris Olympics, for example, featured a tableau of a headless Marie Antoinette.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
romesentinel.com | Daniel Johnson
ONEIDA — In a Tuesday meeting of the Oneida Common Council, Oneida residents expressed frustration about the council's handling of the new city manager position. Oneida residents voted last year in favor of creating the city manager position to designate decision-making to someone with less political bias than the mayor and council members. Throughout the process of the council trying to decide who should hold the position and what their duties should be, residents have expressed concerns.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
aol.co.uk | Daniel Johnson
A discarded EU flag sits on the floorAs Britain prepares to lurch to the Left, on the other side of the Channel voters in the European elections are poised to move sharply to the Right. In most of the 27 member states of the European Union, a revolt of the masses against the liberal establishment is sweeping across the Continent. Why are the UK and the EU moving in opposite directions? In a word: Brexit.
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May 27, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Daniel Johnson
If, on July 5, Britain wakes up to Labour's brave new world, one thing we can be sure of is that the party will immediately impose 20 per cent VAT on school fees. At every opportunity, Sir Keir Starmer and his Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves reiterate that they will fund an extra 6,500 teachers in state schools from the £1.7billion they hope to raise from this tax raid on 'the super-rich'. This exercise in the politics of envy plays well with some sections of the public.
