Week of Nov 4 – Nov 10 – US Daily Review

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Looking at the news and opinion out of London each day.

11-10-14

Ditching Ed Miliband will not change the fact that ‘socialism’ has no relevance these days

Labour wants to save its panda – but the party’s problems run deeper than Ed

European Arrest Warrant 1) Conservative MPs should oppose it today if they really oppose EU integration

The heart of the matter is the suggestion that innocent British citizens should be extradited so that foreign criminal suspects can also be.

‘We are here to stand up for our patients’

The new president of the World Psychiatric Association wants to raise the profile of a long-neglected condition

The 2010 Conservative Manifesto on the EU and criminal justice

“We will work to bring back key powers over legal rights, criminal justice and social and employment legislation in the UK”

11-9-14

Anatomy of the reporting of an arrest on suspicion of terror offences

Attempts to create a strong, Islamic, national voice against extremism have produced many talking heads but no massed voice.

Remembrance

Today amidst solemnity and ceremony I will lay a wreath in Burghfield and a wreath in Wokingham Town Hall. I do so to remember those who gave their lives in the two world wars of the twentieth century and other more recent conflicts.

11-8-14

Osborne was right to settle this EU bill as soon as he could

To attain success in the forthcoming European renegotiation we shall need allies, and to fall out with them on a second-order question would be perverse.

11-7-14

Useless, embattled but nigh-on impossible to sack, Miliband is the best possible opponent

It’s highly unlikely he’ll be unseated – instead, he’ll limp on to May. We must use that time wisely, not rest on our laurels.

No to £1.7 billion must mean No

The Prime Minister and Chancellor were right to say the UK will not pay the £1.7 bn the EU demands. The UK does not accept retrospective taxation. We are already paying too much for our membership of the EU, and support for the EU is not strong. The UK and the US that sprung from the UK have long traditions of imposing democratic control over taxation and expecting remedy of grievances before approving more money for the government.

11-6-14

Nine things the British don’t understand about the Germans

Cameron’s inability to read Merkel’s intentions is part of a much wider ignorance of German geography, history, politics, language and manners.

Karren Brady supports stay-at-home mothers: ‘It’s not menial work and it should never be considered as that’

The British businesswoman emphasises the value in women who stay at home with their children

Housebuilding, congestion and flooding

New housebuilding has risen from the lows of the Great recession but is still running well below the levels the housebuilding industry thinks is necessary, and below the levels of new household formation. Part of this is related to the immigration issues which we have often debated on this site. Today I wish to look at other matters.

11-5-14

Where are the Obama-supporting Conservatives this morning?

“He is the anti-politician in a time when people are rightly suspicious of political elites.” (Douglas Carswell, 2008.)

11-4-14

David Cameron can still win a good deal for the UK

Britain will lose nothing by undertaking what the Prime Minister has called “one last go” at EU reform, and may gain much

Theresa May has her worst week as Home Secretary…yet is back as Party members’ top choice for next leader

Gove is up to third – but it’s still a two-horse race between the Home Secretary and Boris Johnson.

This tax transparency raises a question: how wisely is it spent?

Letting us know where our money goes is to be applauded – but huge sums are being wasted

Benefits and the EU

The large increase in EU migration has come about for a variety of reasons. The addition of several lower income countries to the EU in recent years makes it more tempting for people to wish to come to a richer country like the UK to take advantage of the better pay, higher welfare benefits and better public services. The success of the UK economy in generating many more jobs at a time when several major continental countries are back in recession or stuck with very slow growth also encourages more people to migrate to the UK.

Brand is no revolutionary, just a reformed addict

His anarchist manifesto Revolution is “atrocious: long-winded, confused and smug”, said Nick Cohen of the Observer, warning that “if the British Left falls for him, it will show itself to be beyond saving” — a prospect Boris Johnson then gleefully embraced in the Telegraph. In the Times, David Aaronovitch sneered that “you have to describe him as self-dumbed-down”.

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