Tuesday 22 May 2012

Why reason doesn’t apply to the Eurozone

Fraser Nelson

The Eurozone is a kind of lunacy if you look at it as an economic project. But this isn’t about economics, or rationality — it's about emotion. The Brits and Americans often fail to understand this fully because we judge a currency union in terms of its economic merits. But many European nations see it as part of another, wider, agenda.

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The strains on the Cameron-Hilton relationship

James Forsyth

I suspect that ‘Weekend secrets of the “chillaxing” Prime Minister’ (£) is one of the last headlines that Number 10 wanted to see this Saturday. It is

Englishmen rule

Leah McLaren

I discovered I was pregnant the same day I met the Queen. It was one of those lightless December afternoons when the sky clamps down on London like the lid

Spotify Sunday: The essential Bob Marley

David Rodigan

Here, to mark the release of the documentary Marley, are ten essential tracks by...

The Lobby's existential search for meaning

Martin Bright

There was a small but important piece in the Independent this week by my former boss John Kampfner. He’s not my boss any more, so I don’t

Voices of the Taliban

David Blackburn

Sun Tzu is responsible for the age-old cliché about knowing your enemy. I wonder, then, what he might have made of Poetry of the Taliban, edited by

A man of courage and conviction

Jerry Hayes

Whatever you might think about Peter Hain, he has proved himself to be a man of great personal courage and conviction. Of course, when it comes to being a