The Belfast Agreement (“Good Friday Agreement”) does not state that the border between the Republic of Ireland (RoI) and Northern Ireland must be open or that there must be the same standards for goods (conformity – ‘CE’) or that tariffs and excise duties should be the same across the border. However, the …
Read More »An open letter from an 85 year old Gordon constituent to her MP Colin Clark
Dear Mr Clark, I write to complain about what feels like treachery by our Prime Minister for allowing such a poor deal on Brexit even to be considered as acceptable to the British population. I spent the first 5 years of my life in Jersey, daughter of a non-Jersey born …
Read More »Who are Remain and Leave?
A couple of weeks ago I was sitting outside the Mezquita Catedral at Cordoba and looking around at all the tourists. Most of the people under thirty were wearing tee shirts and jeans and without hearing their voices it was difficult to work out where they came from. We see …
Read More »‘X’ does not mark the spot
The current turmoil over Brexit seems to fit the textbook definition of a pyrrhic victory. No matter what side prevails, for all the gains made, the losses will be heavy. To some extent, all sides will have lost face. The government will have lost face with the majority of voters …
Read More »Why We Should Give Asylum To Asia Bibi
After a visit, in 2015, to detention centres in Thailand, where I saw some of the thousands of escaping Pakistani Christians and Ahmadis, caged like animals, and subsequently filmed by Chris Rogers for a BBC documentary, I chaired an Inquiry under the auspices of the All Party Group on Freedom …
Read More »There are 4 possible outcomes from this Brexit chaos
The Brexit crisis hardly needs an introduction, and the past few days have demonstrated the utter nightmare that we are in. Theresa May published her draft Brexit agreement and it was immediately criticised from nearly all politicians and senior figures. The draft agreement does not fulfill the wishes of Brexiteers …
Read More »She betrays what they fought for
A week ago we commemorated the 100th anniversary of the ending of the First World War. Theresa May laid wreaths on the graves of those who had defended the freedom and democracy of our country while knowing that she intended to surrender both of them. For this alone she must go. …
Read More »The EU Withdrawal Agreement – Full Facts
Many people will have noticed that there has been very little discussion of the contents of the withdrawal agreement between the UK and EU. Here is a link to the snappily named: “Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and …
Read More »Time for common sense?
As the now near inevitable non-Brexit grinds towards whatever the opposite of a conclusion is, the pundits are having a field day as conspiracy after conspiracy is dreamed up and the succession of leaks, rebuttals, unofficial briefings and official denials muddies the waters beyond any comprehension. Anybody who dares to …
Read More »If reports are correct, the Brexit deal must be rejected
From this site’s inception, it has been the mission of the Daily Globe to secure a Global Britain. Our first article was entitled The Globe Needs the United Kingdom. Our motto is “British Values with a Global Perspective.” We are also home to the Commonwealth, Realms and CANZUK campaign (“CRCC”) …
Read More »The New Extremism
The changes in our society since the fall of communism were not predicted by anyone at the time. This article summarises what we can see in retrospect and it is not pretty. Marxism and Conservatism are being replaced by a deviant form of secularism. The most obvious change since the …
Read More »Happy birthday Poland
The writer of the Polish national epic, one of the last epic poems written in Europe, was born in present day Belarus and wrote in the first line of his poem Pan Tadeusz: Litwo, Ojczyzno moja! ty jesteś jak zdrowie; [Lithuania, my fatherland! You are like health] From this you …
Read More »I worry about Ireland and this damned EU.
I had a chat earlier with a pal who’d have been reared on the “other side” of the Northern Ireland political divide from myself. Discussing the likely reaction of the Irish to mass immigration, should the EU decide to dump on them next on a large scale, as suggested in …
Read More »Why Northern Ireland Should Not be Forced to Accept British abortion laws.
The below speech was made by the author in the House of Lords on 30 October 2018 in the House of Lords My Lords, in March 1979, four days after Airey Neave was brutally murdered in the precincts of Parliament, I made my maiden speech in the House of Commons. …
Read More »Mocking Grenfell Tower On Bonfire Night Is Appalling, But Should Not Be Criminal
A society which looks to the state to deliver retribution for non-harmful offensive speech is a society which no longer values a core tenet of liberal democracy The battle for free speech is won or lost at the margins, which means that those who call themselves advocates of free speech …
Read More »Meet some of the business leaders who support #Brexit!
One of the main arguments during the 2016 EU referendum from the Brexiteers was that business has been limited due to EU regulation, and that the UK can’t trade freely with the rest of the world. There are many business leaders who agree with this argument, and some have donated …
Read More »Arron Banks and US Banks
The Electoral Commission has referred Arron Banks to the National Crime Agency for suspected false declaration of the source of EU Referendum funding. The alleged offence involved £2.9m of money given by Mr Banks and spent by Leave.EU, the UKIP campaign for Leaving the EU – the official campaign was Vote Leave and is not …
Read More »We must confront Anti-Semitism
This speech was originally given by the author in the House of Lords. My Lords, in a recent interview, my noble friend Lord Sacks said that, “The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews”. Anti-Semitism is a virus that singles out Jews but which then spreads its hateful …
Read More »The first visible signs of Global Britain
Back in June of 2017, the Daily Globe and CRCC cheered the proposal of a group of Conservative MPs to introduce a special passport area with Commonwealth nations. We backed the plan because it was an important step to laying the groundwork for a Special Passport Area with the great …
Read More »Despicable
It’s all over the news again and we may only now be realising the true scale of the problem, but the pattern has been clear for years. A group of men, some of them many decades older than their victims, and all of them from an identifiable significant minority have …
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