Were the United Kingdom to secede from the European Union, it would have abandoned a policy which, for the last 400 years, has sought to avoid a continent dominated by a single European power. Spain and France have fallen under this heading. After Germany’s unification in the 19th century until 1945, fear of German domination …
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The Economist reports that border enforcement costs the US $18 billion a year, more than all other federal criminal-law-enforcement agencies combined. On some stretches of the Mexican border enforcement it is reckoned to be only 30% effective, even given fences, drones, tower-mounted cameras and 21,000 patrol agents. Were Epicurus alive today there is every likelihood …
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Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind”. Albert Einstein It was nationalism that led to the First World War, and it is nationalism that continues to roil too many nations in conflict and strife. Subtract nationalism and you are left with getting along together. Nationalism is not unlike religion in so far as …
In the run-up to a referendum, who will tell the truth about the EU – and will anyone listen if they do? As a result of lies and half-truths fed to them over decades, huge numbers of the public believe that British ministers have no say in what “Brussels” decides, that the Commission is an …
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Britain’s life-saving coastal search and rescue helicopter services are being contracted out to a company based in Texas because the government do not want to buy 22 new helicopters. The British invented privatization, a boondoggle that has been copied all over the world. In the British context natural monopolies have been sold to foreign companies …
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