In a society, there has to be sanctions. In British law, traditionally, you could do anything you wanted as long as it didn’t violate the rights of others. It was understood that once you violate someone’s rights, you forfeit at least some of your own. It was this threat of losing some of...

Socialism is Selfishness Socialism is often cast as the highest form of altruism. That is, money is taken from those who can afford it, and then transferred to the sections of society in greatest need of support. However, socialism is far from selfless altruism. It perverts democracy at the national...

The EU loves to talk about its alleged “soft power”. Soft power is the ability of a nation to get people to do what you want, without using force. The EU believes that by setting an example on the world stage, other countries will feel so morally overwhelmed by the EU’s stance, they...

Was Churchill a Europhile? The Europhiles certainly seem to think so. During the European elections, they sneered at how UKIP could be using Churchill when he was an advocate of the EU. The European Union itself certainly thinks Churchill was a Europhile. It has even named one of the buildings in the...

An interesting generation gap exists in terms of Euroscepticism. To our parents generation, Europe was exotic and exciting. I recently found an old travel brochure from the 1970s, promising that a trip to Spain would be “The holiday of a lifetime”. Nowadays, no travel agent could call a trip...

The Conservative party is not, as some say, “split down the middle” over Europe, which implies two equally sized camps standing face to face. The more accurate description of their division is that it is “split across the middle”, that is, with one side at the top, and the other...

Did you know French railway workers can retire at 50? The reason is in earlier decades, trains were powered by coal ovens. Railway workers spent their lives inhaling coal dust, which ruined their health. Since railways were important to the economy, France decided to allow railways workers to retire...