Wrong Then, Wrong Now DanielHannan 2014-11-13 | Some politicians and big businessmen say that the EU is vital to our prosperity.Sound familiar?Let's remind ourselves what they said about the euro.
How China will take over the world DanielHannan 2024-10-17 | And what the rest of us can do to stop it. Hint: we won't stop it by refusing to trade.From the CPS panel at the 2024 Conservative Party Conference. Full debate here: youtube.com/watch?v=x7AdJsY3uzg
Shameful surrender of the Chagos Islands DanielHannan 2024-10-09 | Labour has upset our allies, delighted our enemies and betrayed the displaced Chagossians. We are giving away the most strategic base in the Indian Ocean, and have somehow ended up paying for the privilege of doing so. What a disgrace!
Why would anyone go into politics? DanielHannan 2024-10-04 | A discussion with Giles Dilnot about China, Brexit, candidate selection, Reform UK, over-mighty civil servants and much else. Hosted by ConservativeHome at the 2024 Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.
Ignoring our Brexit opportunities DanielHannan 2024-09-26 | Africa is growing at an extraordinary rate. Despite our cultural, linguistic and migratory links, we are being very slow to expand our trade there - largely for reasons of domestic protectionism.
When our midwife didnt show up DanielHannan 2024-09-09 | The provision of information matters. Oh, and Cate Blanchett is responsible for more good in this world than she knows.
Lockdown was worse than useless DanielHannan 2024-09-03 | As evidence piles up, we can see that the restrictions killed more people than they saved. But don't expect to hear any of that from our farce of an official enquiry.
Does Starmer represent a win for the Right? DanielHannan 2024-08-05 | Obviously Labour's victory was catastrophic for the Conservative Party. But was it such bad news for the wider conservative movement? Might reforms begin under Labour?My conversation with Jonah Goldberg. youtube.com/@TheDispatchPods
Build some sodding houses! DanielHannan 2024-07-28 | One of the areas where Labour could potentially be far better than the Conservatives is in building the houses we need.
Now what? DanielHannan 2024-07-24 | How does the Conservative Party come back from here?Speech to the PopCon conference on 9 July, 2024
Why did the Tories lose? DanielHannan 2024-07-19 | My discussion with the brilliant Jonah Goldberg, who understands British politics better than 99 per cent of Brits.Watch the full conversation here:youtube.com/watch?v=SEXG2LNZglUyoutube.com/@TheDispatchPods
Respectable xenophobia DanielHannan 2024-07-09 | Many people who think of themselves as internationalists, and who decry Brexit as backward, are astonishingly biased against foreign countries when it comes to trade.The final instalment of my debate with Dr Terence Kealey. vinsoncentre.comiea.org.ukyoutube.com/watch?v=4zEDBzNuIXI
No peace with the ayatollahs DanielHannan 2024-07-02 | What was their opening act? The siege of the US embassy, an unprecedented violation of national sovereignty. They started as they meant to go on, showing no respect for norms of diplomatic behaviour or for national sovereignty. It is hard to see any lasting regional peace without regime change in Persia.
The Hong Kong miracle DanielHannan 2024-06-26 | Also: why food self-sufficiency is a terrible idea.Watch the full debate here: youtube.com/watch?v=4zEDBzNuIXI
Faith, family flag: whats the right order? DanielHannan 2024-06-18 | A segment from my Freecons versus Natcons debate with Dr James Orr for the Free Market Roadshow, hosted by the Legatum InstituteWatch the whole debate here:youtube.com/watch?v=PvbjxeGbmsc
How the EU continues to exert control DanielHannan 2024-06-14 | The Government has announced that it wants to add more folic acid to flour so as to prevent birth defects. The move has been broadly welcomed by campaigners, the industry and all parties. But it can't go ahead in Northern Ireland without the EU's permission. This is how, in reality, all our standards are still anchored to Brussels.
More imports please! DanielHannan 2024-06-10 | I run vast deficits with most of the pubs in my little corner of the Hampshire-Berkshire borders. Sometimes they engage in dumping, as when they offer a free glass of wine with a meal. Who gets the better end of that deal? Why do we object if taxpayers in another country choose to subsidise us?Watch the full debate here: youtube.com/watch?v=4zEDBzNuIXI
The Bank of England has been a disaster DanielHannan 2024-06-03 | Its forecasts have been woeful, it has become obsessed with woke and its first instinct is to print more money. But, in our current cultural climate, politicians will always end up being blamed for its mistakes.Milton (Friedman) thou shouldst be living at this hour...
No, free trade should not be reciprocal DanielHannan 2024-05-31 | If another country places rocks in its harbours, don't retaliate by placing rocks in your own harbours.Watch the full debate here: youtube.com/watch?v=4zEDBzNuIXI
Still subject to the EU court DanielHannan 2024-05-27 | The ruling that measures against illegal immigration do not apply in Northern Ireland makes a nonsense of the entire Windsor Framework.
Why so many wars? DanielHannan 2024-05-21 | Protectionism and geopolitical instability are more connected than people realise. Since 2011, trade volumes have fallen, autocracies have become more numerous and wars have become more common.Watch the full debate here: youtube.com/watch?v=4zEDBzNuIXI
A Leaver in the Lords DanielHannan 2024-05-14 | Welcome to Lord Moynihan, who chaired Vote Leave (in which capacity he had to try to control Dominic Cummings) and who has finally been recognised for his many achievements.
Marxs mistake DanielHannan 2024-05-10 | Terence Kealey and I agree that the odious old sponger was wrong, but we disagree about why.
The WHO power-grab DanielHannan 2024-05-08 | A welcome confirmation from the minister, Lord Markham, that the UK will not surrender any sovereignty to an organisation with such a hopeless recent record.
The vaccination scandal DanielHannan 2024-05-03 | Ministers now admit that the Covid vaccines did not significantly inhibit transmission. So why the hell did we force them on to young people? Why did we insist on vaccine passports?
What Trumpsters get wrong DanielHannan 2024-05-01 | It is not trade that is causing pockets of deindustrialisation. It is technological advances - advances which, overall, create more jobs than they destroy.Watch the full debate here: youtube.com/watch?v=4zEDBzNuIXI
Still bound by EU policy DanielHannan 2024-04-29 | You say tomayto, I say tomahto. Either way, we are crazily imposing tariffs on a product we are short of - tariffs inherited from the EU and designed to protect Spanish and Italian growers. Why, eight years after voting to leave, are we still doing this? Is it deliberate foot-dragging by Europhile civil servants?
No, blue-collar workers are not worse off DanielHannan 2024-04-24 | The claim that the living standards of unskilled workers in the West has fallen since the end of the twentieth century just does not stack up.Watch the full debate here: youtube.com/watch?v=4zEDBzNuIXI
Standing by our allies in the Middle East DanielHannan 2024-04-17 | Should Parliament be consulted before each military action in the Middle East? For operational reasons, it would be impractical. The RAF's action in shooting down Iranian drones, defending not just Israel but also our close ally, Jordan, was a case in point.
The infant industries fallacy DanielHannan 2024-04-15 | Governments are no better at picking winners than they are at anything else. Every time they try, they end up making the sector or industry concerned LESS competitive and LESS efficient.Watch the full debate here: youtube.com/watch?v=4zEDBzNuIXI
What if the ANC could get away with it? DanielHannan 2024-04-08 | Why do South Africa's leaders refuse to condemn, even in the mildest way, the election-rigging in Zimbabwe? Is it just sentimentality about the war there? Or are they secretly studying it as a template for what to do at home?
Chicken and liberty! DanielHannan 2024-04-01 | Never mind the eagle. The broiler chicken should have been the national emblem of a nation conceived in liberty. Listen to the full interview on Dominic Pino's excellent podcast.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/free-markets-taste-like-chicken/id1731149847?i=1000649716611
The toughest idea in economics DanielHannan 2024-03-27 | I have almost given up on convincing any non-economist about comparative advantage.It just seems so bloody weird.Part three of my Vinson Centre debate with the excellent (except on free trade, obvs) Terence Kealey.youtube.com/@vinsoncentrebuckingham
Wasting another Brexit opportunity DanielHannan 2024-03-22 | We have been reluctant to scrap even the EU regulations which every single party opposed when they were introduced.
What about the workers? DanielHannan 2024-03-15 | How, if at all, should we compensate those who lose from free trade?Part two of my Vinson Centre debate.See the whole thing here:youtube.com/@vinsoncentrebuckingham
Thank you tax havens DanielHannan 2024-03-08 | Without low-tax jurisdictions, many of which have harsh rules on secrecy and money-laundering, but just happen to be good at keeping taxes low, just imagine how high rates would be in the rest of the world.
Imagine a pill that prevented all illness DanielHannan 2024-03-05 | Would anyone argue that such a pill should be kept out because it was produced by foreigners and would endanger our domestic care home and medical industries?A debate against the great Terence Kealey, hosted by Buckingham University's Vinson Centre.More to follow.vinsoncentre.com
How would you like to live on the minimum wage? DanielHannan 2024-02-29 | It has become almost taboo to discuss the costs which the minimum wage imposes on smaller businesses, on those seeking work and, not least, on customers. But we can't keep burdening our economy like this without consequences.conservativehome.com/2021/03/03/daniel-hannan-there-are-clear-problems-with-raising-the-minimum-wage-but-anger-now-trumps-account-keeping
They are not no fault evictions DanielHannan 2024-02-23 | That phrase suggests to any normal person that a tenant has been thrown out mid-contract, rather than simply meaning that the contract has reached the end of its term and expired.
Dont ban conversion therapy DanielHannan 2024-02-16 | All the things that opponents of the practice say they dislike are already banned by existing laws. We need to stop reaching for legislation every time we want to signal our disapproval of something. Corruptissima republica plurimae leges.
Four economic concepts everyone should learn at school DanielHannan 2024-02-08 | There are some counterintuitive but basic economic truths, the understanding of which will make us wiser voters and happier citizens.
We are still tied to EU trade rules DanielHannan 2024-02-02 | Canada is not alone in resenting the fact that the UK has stuck to unscientific EU food standards, some of which plainly breach WTO rules.
Back the Rwanda Bill! DanielHannan 2024-01-29 | God knows it's not perfect, but its opponents have failed to come up with any plausible alternatives. The fact that you might end up in Rwanda, even if it's only a chance and not a certainty, is bound to exercise a deterrent effect.
Trade not aid! DanielHannan 2024-01-11 | British overseas aid tends, if anything, to correlate with a decline in democracy. Bad in itself, and bad for the climate policies that the aid money is notionally there to support.
Keep the Elgin Marbles! DanielHannan 2023-12-19 | The idea of some ethnic or national claim to artefacts is simply another form of collectivism, and is at odds with the principle of free contract and private ownership.
How like a god DanielHannan 2023-12-11 | Shakespeare wasn't just our greatest writer. He was, in a sense, our creator.Speech at UCLA on the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio.
The West is losing DanielHannan 2023-12-07 | We used to think that other countries liked the whole liberal-democratic package. Turns out that a lot of them were simply overawed by superior Western arms.
The collapse of American democracy DanielHannan 2023-12-01 | Fewer and fewer people believe in the system enough to uphold it when the other side wins. Interview with the excellent Matt Kibbe of freethepeople.org.Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=WfBQxmuDZzw
Producer capture DanielHannan 2023-11-26 | When the EU passed stringent regulations on investment funds in 2006, every British party, and the whole City of London, opposed them. Now that they have assimilated the compliance costs, the established companies haven't simply lost interest in repeal. they actively favour the measure they used to oppose because they see it as a barrier to entry,
