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The EU's deal with Turkey exposes the moral vacuum at its heart
Looked at from the narrow perspective of how to deal with the lethal business of human trafficking across the Aegean,…
Portrait of the week
Home The Bank of England arranged for banks to be able to borrow as much money as they needed around…
Jean-Claude Juncker speaks to Britain like a Roman emperor
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU Commission, made a typically brilliant intervention in the EU referendum debate by arguing that…
Brexit is none of Mark Carney's business
Surely there is a difference between Mark Carney’s intervention in the Scottish referendum last year and in the EU one…
To believe in Brexit, you have to be an oik like me or Michael Gove
If you need to know how properly posh you are there’s a very simple test: are you pro- or anti-Brexit?…
Obama’s wrong. Americans should back Brexit – and so should you
President Obama thinks it’s in all our interests for you to remain part of the EU. This is why he’s wrong
Athens today makes me long for an EU bigwig to strangle
Athens I am walking around downtown Athens watching as thousands of migrants field pitches from smugglers offering alternative routes…
Portrait of the week
Home An official analysis by the Cabinet Office said that if Britain left the EU it would lead to a…
What Pericles knew that David Cameron doesn’t
It does seem extraordinary that the increasingly puce-faced Mr Cameron offered us an ‘in-out’ referendum and is now telling us…
Trade comes before trade agreements (but the ‘in’ campaign don’t think so)
The government, or at least David Cameron’s bit of it, seems to think that trade is something that takes place…
Of course the old Tory hatreds are back. That’s referendums for you
Of course it’s vicious. It was always going to be. Sure, they’ve spent decades living peacefully side by side, but…
A conservative case for voting 'in'
Europe has enjoyed an exceptional three decades of freedom and prosperity. Why risk that?
Why the World Service is worth every penny
What makes the World Service so different from the rest of the BBC? I asked Mary Hockaday, the controller of…
Who is more undemocratic, Putin or Brussel? I say Brussels — by far
The rich are under attack nowadays, never more so than in America, where The Donald continues to trump his critics,…
Reading the Mirror’s new newspaper makes me want to throw myself on a bonfire
On Monday I went to the newsagent to buy the newspapers and picked up the first issue of a new…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, having continued talks through the night in Brussels, announced that he had achieved a ‘special status’ for…
No second EU referendum? Tell that to the Danes and the Irish
Vote no, vote often David Cameron scorned Boris Johnson’s idea that voting to leave the EU might result in further…
Why does no one in the cabinet admit to being a Europhile?
One of the oddest features of the cabinet majority for staying in the EU is that almost no one in…
The City’s real players may be voting ‘out’ in the EU referendum
‘The City is in no doubt that staying in Europe is the only way ahead,’ declared Mark Boleat for the…
How Brexit would affect British farmers
How would British farming change without EU subsidies?
Britain to have ‘special status’ in the EU? Careful what you wish for…
‘Special status?’ said my husband. ‘You mean like executioners, butchers and undertakers in Japan?’ I hadn’t suggested that, but had…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, spent time in Brussels before a meeting of the European Council to see what…
America would never join anything like the EU. Yet they urge us to stay
America is urging Britain to stay in the European Union. But it would never dream of joining a comparable organisation
Britain’s determination to kill itself makes my blood boil
Gstaad The locals here in the beautiful Saanen valley are split over the migrant crisis. Switzerland does not belong…
Emma Thompson’s wrong about the EU and cake
At first glance, Emma Thompson’s intervention in the Brexit debate earlier this week didn’t make much sense. Asked at the…
