Making a Success of Brexit and Reforming the EU

It is striking that today the European Commission has greater powers to ignore parliament than did most English kings.

Now British people have to accept laws imposed on them as a result of Byzantine intrigue between the unelected European Commission and the leaders of the other European member states. This represents a negation of centuries of British history, a central theme of which has been the gradual transfer of powers from the crown to the elected representat

Turkey is a litmus test. Is the EU meant to be the modern reincarnation of Christendom? Or is it a union of geographically close states that fulfil certain dry membership criteria? If the EU merely exists to bring together neighbours, how can such a union be close and based on shared values? At its heart, the EU suffers from a profound identity cri

What is the point of the EU? Is it to link together countries and peoples that are ‘European’? Is it to link together countries and peoples that are geographically close together? Is it to link together countries that conduct themselves in a certain way and are prepared and able to obey EU law? Or is it simply to carry on expanding as far as it can