Daniel Hannan Articles

This week’s spate of scandals have re-energised public interest in proposals to clean up parliament. All three main parties included remarkably similar proposals in their manifestos, yet little progress has been made under the current government. In his excellent book...

The political speech, against all expectation in a networked world, still counts. The essence of the speech remains the event that Aristotle described in his Rhetoric 5,000 years ago. This volume brings the genre right up to date. John Shosky, a speechwriter for three...

Like free trade in the 19th century and the Irish question 100 years ago, the Europe problem is now going to dominate parliament until the next election and perhaps much longer. As MPs mull over what has happened there are 10 aspects from the crisis over British...

In a powerful Times comment today, David Aaronovitch (£), paints a delightful picture of Jacob Rees Mogg as the quintessential anti-EU Tory MP. The Mogg, as he is now affectionately known, has become a great Commons character in the space of a few months. For...