A book from one of the architects of Leave shows how accidents of circumstance and a few personalities determined the UK’s future. The post The Brexit Miracle, Ten Years On appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs The Brexit Miracle, Ten Years On A book from one of the architects of Leave shows how accidents of circumstance and a few personalities determined the UK’s future. Ten Years On: The Untold Story of Brexit – Reflections on a Life of Campaigning, by Matthew Elliott “Even now, people call the Brexit vote a victory for right-wing populism … They are right that Brexit was a victory for populism; they are wrong to think it was for the right-wing kind,” says Matthew Elliott in Ten Years On, which is certain to be the most insightful and honest telling of…Open
Coddling immigrant criminals comes at a cost. The post Two-Tier Justice Comes for British Jews appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Two-Tier Justice Comes for British Jews Coddling immigrant criminals comes at a cost. UK Special Coverage (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images) The response of the British left to the knife attack on two Jews, Moshe Shine, 76, and Shloime Rand, 34, in London’s Golders Green on Wednesday was telling. The leader of the left-wing Green Party, Zack Polanski, retweeted a post on X accusing the police of brutality for “violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head.” Well, a kick in the head is perhaps the least this attacker should have expected after refusing to give up his…Open
Labour still has irresoluble internal faults. The post Starmer Survives a Palace Coup, But for How Long? appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Starmer Survives a Palace Coup, But for How Long? Labour still has irresoluble internal faults. UK Special Coverage It is an old adage in war and politics that, if you’re going to take out your leader, you’d better not miss. You also need to be sure that the politicians who’ve said they’ll support you in a palace coup are serious people. Unfortunately, the Scottish Labour grandee, Anas Sarwar, failed on both counts. Yesterday he voiced what many Labour MPs have been saying privately for months and called openly for the beleaguered Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign. “Too many mistakes,” he…Open