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Update from Ukraine | Ukraine stopped the Ruzzian forces in Avdiivka. New tactics for Ukrainian Army https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Fsqu4-UG8 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 12th July 2023 – 22:00 https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-504-summary/ *** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

This is the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin regardless of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s decision to turn around last night. That may seem an odd thing to say. But Putin’s power rests on projection, on propaganda, on the image of invincibility. Now, all of a sudden, the curtain has been snatched back, revealing the Wizard of Oz as a small, mediocre, frightened man.From the outside, dictatorships can look monolithic. One of the reasons that Western Kremlinologists failed to predict the end of the Soviet Union was that they knew little of the necessarily secret rivalries within it. None of them...

Thank you, David Cameron. https://www.facebook.com/danielhannan/videos/10153550031467331/

CNN's Christiane Amanpour took her left-leaning, pro-European Union activism to a new level on Tuesday during an interview of pro-Brexit politician Daniel Hannan. Amanpour, who recently blasted the referendum as an example of "xenophobia", tried to implicate the British member of the European Parliament as somehow partially responsible for supposed post-vote "hate crimes." Hannan didn't take her clear bias sitting down, however: "You guys have been shouting 'racist' so long, you're not listening to what we were actually saying...if I was relying on CNN...I would think that this was nativist vote, a protectionist vote. It's the opposite." [video below] The...

Shall I tell you the most depressing thing? ItÂ’s not that the party of Lincoln and Reagan will be fronted by a self-absorbed, foul-mouthed, thin-skinned, bullying, mendacious, meretricious, mountainous berk. ItÂ’s not the reputational damage that our most important ally will suffer in consequence: if I were Mexico, IÂ’d be glad to pay for a sodding wall to keep Trump out. ItÂ’s not the prospect of another sleekit Clinton using Supreme Court appointments to ensure a full generation of left-wing judicial activism. No, sadder than any of these things is what the rise of the Donald says about democracy. With...

Like many bullies, Donald Trump has a dishing-it-out-but-not-taking-it problem. He has systematically insulted the other Republican presidential candidates, often in the crudest, most foul-mouthed way. But he goes ballistic at the slightest criticism. When, for example, Rich Lowry, the highly respected editor of the National Review, observed that Carly Fiorina had emasculated him with the precision of a surgeon – a pretty unarguable conclusion, by the way – he called on the regulators to fine Lowry and ban him from television. Lowry, he added rather lamely, was “a bad guy”.And yet, incredibly, Trump continues to lead the Republican field by...

A venerable enumeration of the rights of man is barely taught anymore, resulting in record low recognition of same. “I went to see the Magna Carta when it was on display a few years ago,” British Conservative MP Daniel Hannan remembered in a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan last week. “You can get right up to it: Nobody comes.” “When it was on display in New York City in 1939, 14 million people came to see it.” Hannan was the keynote dinner speaker at the Philadelphia Society’s regional meeting on Friday, October 10th. The Society of leading conservative intellectuals was...

Paul Ryan had never before struck me as an inspiring speaker. I mean, I like the fellow: he has sound ideas, he's charming and he has a demotic, boy-next-door quality which is unusual among cerebral politicians. But his chief appeal has always been as a policy specialist rather than an orator. Until last night. Ryan's speech to the Republican Convention in Tampa was a masterpiece. As Roger Kimball observes, 'His manner is open, confident, but somehow also humble. There is nothing swaggering, nothing of the braggart or narcissist about him. He seems impressed, not by the sound of his own...

American pollsters will tell you that the presidential candidate who is in the lead going into the party conventions usually wins. Four polls last week showed a tiny lead for Barack Obama, two for Mitt Romney and one was level; all seven were well within the margin of error. Another rule is that the Gallup poll taken 100 days before the poll foretells the winner. Only once in the past 60 years – the Bush-Dukakis race of 1988 – did that predictor fail. So, what did Gallup show on the date in question? A dead heat, with both candidates on...

Is it possible for a Right-wing government to freeze spending and cut the deficit while remaining popular? As they say in New Zealand, ‘yih’. I’ve remarked before that, while no country is physically further from Britain, none is temperamentally closer. Yet there is a difference when it comes to public expenditure. A slowing of the rate of increase in the UK – there have, as yet, been no net cuts – is howled down as an assault on the poor directed by a clique of ancien régime aristocrats. In New Zealand, by contrast, ‘zero budgets’ are seen as prudent and...

RUSH: Daniel Hannan, member of the British parliament, spoke Saturday CPAC. From what I understand it was not televised. You had to get it streaming. That's what Cookie told me. I told her this morning, "Get me some Daniel Hannan." She looked and the only place she could find it was streaming. We got it, doesn't matter. But we have three bites, and his focus was the importance of the congressional elections. He wanted everybody at CPAC to know that, you could have the best president in the world, you guys can elect the best Republican conservative in the world,...

Daniel Hannan speaking in the debate on the conclusions of the European Council meeting (8-9 December). The debate took place during the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg this week.

“Markets, Government, and the Common Good” Presented in conjunction with the Acton Institute and the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities Register to watch the free webcast of this event: hillsdalefmf.com Schedule of Events: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 8:00 p.m. “The New Road to Serfdom: Lessons to Learn from European Policy” Daniel Hannan European Parliament FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 8:00-9:45 a.m. “The National Debt and Entitlement Reform” Chair: Gary Wolfram Hillsdale College Presenters: “The Debt Crisis” David R. Henderson Naval Postgraduate School “The Entitlement Crisis” Michael D. Tanner CATO “The Politics of Entitlement Reform” Dean Clancy FreedomWorks 10:15 -11:45 a.m. “Can We...

As a member of European Parliament, Daniel Hannan has seen our future, and it isn’t pretty. The fiery British politician (and YouTube sensation) was at The Heritage Foundation last week to discuss his new book, “The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America” and to sound the alarm to Americans of the creeping European-style socialism that is gaining ground among our government. Before his lecture, he sat down with us to discuss his warning to America and made clear that the core principles undergirding Western democracies are under siege: You don’t have to look to far to...

...Obama would verbalize his ideology using the same vocabulary that Eurocrats do. He is not pursuing a set of random initiatives but a program of comprehensive Europeanization: European health care, European welfare, European carbon taxes, European day care, European college education, even a European foreign policy, based on engagement with supranational technocracies, nuclear disarmament and a reluctance to deploy forces overseas... Is a European future truly so terrible? Yes... For the past 40 years, Europeans have fallen further and further behind Americans in their standard of living. Europe also has become accustomed to a high level of structural unemployment. Only...

I’ve blogged before about why I admire Ronald Reagan; why, indeed, I see him as the greatest of all 44 US presidents. Here, in his centenary year, is a reminder of his greatest domestic achievement: he managed to bring spending down as a percentage of GDP. He did so in the only way possible in a modern democracy, not by slashing expenditure in absolute terms, but by allowing the private sector to grow faster than the public sector. Never forget the central message of Reagan’s inauguration speech: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government...

Let’s review the evidence. President Obama received from Gordon Brown a pen-holder made from the timbers of a Royal Navy anti-slavery vessel, and reciprocated with DVDs. He silkily downgraded the UK from “our closest ally” to “one of our allies”. He gave the Queen an iPod full of his own speeches. He used the Louisiana oil spill to attack an imaginary company called “British Petroleum” (it has been BP for the past decade, ever since the merger with Amoco gave it as many American as British shareholders). He sent a bust of Winston Churchill back to the British Embassy. He...

Daniel Hannan Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist, and has been Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999. He speaks French and Spanish and loves Europe, but believes that the EU is making its constituent nations poorer, less democratic and less free. He is the winner of the Bastiat Award for online journalism. The Tea Party is more dangerous than the BNP, says Labour MP By Daniel Hannan Politics Last updated: September 29th, 2010 328 Comments Comment on this article Lower taxes? I don't think so. Watch this clip. John Cruddas, the conscience of Old Labour, comes across...

Here is video of Great Britain’s Daniel Hannan – a member of the European Parliament – talking with Neil Cavuto where he once again spoke up for conservative principles and issued a warning to America about the dangers of moving down the road to European-style Socialism. Hannan warned against higher taxes and higher spending, saying the only way to get out of debt is to grow your way out. Policies that spur growth and unleash the power of business and enterprise are the only way. Hannan said the common sense policies of the Tea Party Movement are “more reasonable” than...

Barack Obama born in Kenya? Pah! If anything, he was born in Brussels. The policies his administration is pursuing amount to comprehensive Europeanisation: European carbon taxes, European foreign policy, European healthcare, European daycare, European disarmament, European industrial intervention and, inevitably, European unemployment rates....