Ken Livingstone’s characteristically outrageous intervention in the debate over anti-Semitism in the Labour Party – denying it existed while simultaneously proving that it does – was wrong on all sorts of levels, but one of them was in his grotesque mangling of the historical record. “Let’s remember when Hitler won his election in 1932,” he […]
Over the Christmas week, CapX is republishing its favourite pieces from the past year. You can find the full list here. ‘I could not consent to the introduction into our national life of a device so alien to all our traditions as the referendum,’ Clement Attlee told Winston Churchill in May 1945, ‘which has […]
‘I could not consent to the introduction into our national life of a device so alien to all our traditions as the referendum,’ Clement Attlee told Winston Churchill in May 1945, ‘which has only too often been the instrument of Nazism and Fascism.’ The Referendum has long been characterized by its detractors as the constitutional […]
There are few sights more unedifying in politics than Tory politicians lining up at the TV studios to kick a good man when he’s down, but that is what is happening to Zac Goldsmith right now. So before any more ludicrous myths develop about his campaign for mayor of London, it is as well that […]
Gerry Adams has made an apology to African-Americans for using the ‘N’ word to liken their plight to that of the Catholics of Northern Ireland. ‘Watching Django Unchained,’ he tweeted, ‘a Ballymurphy N****r!’ But he hasn’t yet apologized for the underlying message of the tweet; that here was anything whatever in common between the plight […]
Ken Livingstone’s characteristically outrageous intervention in the debate over anti-Semitism in the Labour Party – denying it existed while simultaneously proving that it does – was wrong on all sorts of levels, but one of them was in his grotesque mangling of the historical record. “Let’s remember when Hitler won his election in 1932,” he […]
As we welcome the Leader of the Free World – as American presidents used to be called – to London to lecture us about the supposed evils of Brexit, we ought to consider Barack Obama’s long and despicably ignoble history of denying support to the democratic aspirations of others. American presidents used to consider standing […]
Yet again New Zealand has shown what a truly splendid country it is. In the face of modern fashion, political correctness, Leftist sneers, its prime minister’s urging, and bien pensant accusations of an obsession with the past, the Kiwis have voted by an over 13% majority to retain their flag with its distinctive Union Jack […]
‘I believe and confess that a people can value nothing more highly than the dignity and liberty of its existence,’ Carl von Clausewitz wrote to his patron and mentor, Count von Scharnhorst, when he resigned from the Prussian civil service in order to fight against Napoleon in 1812; ‘that we must defend these to the […]
“For the United Kingdom,” former prime minister Sir John Major told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning, “67 million out of a world population of 7 billion, to break off and head into splendid isolation doesn’t seem to me to be in our interests.” In politics that is called a “Straw Man Argument”, when […]
One of the most important and powerful bodies that the British people will look to for guidance in how to vote in the euro-referendum will be the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and its pronouncements on whether or not staying in Europe would be good for British industry, jobs and competitiveness. It is worthwhile, therefore, […]
The admonition not to speak ill of the dead is an ancient and honourable one but it has been taken far too far in the case of Denis Healey, who died on Saturday. All too often the obituarists, in articles with headlines such as “Best Prime Minister Britain Never Had” have failed to point out […]
The seemingly inexorable rise of Jeremy Corbyn towards the leadership of the Labour Party might seem like a truly extraordinary political event, but in fact there is plenty of historical precedent for what the Left of British politics is going through at the moment. The phenomenon by which a party after a surprise or devastating […]
