Liberty
Boris Johnson and the Fed
James Langford of the Washington Examiner reports that the new British prime minister could have an impact on the American central bank. Boris Johnson promised the day after his ascension…
Theresa May
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Trump, Farage, and trade
Rob Crilly reports for the Washington Examiner that Brexit leader Nigel Farage wants to talk trade with President Trump. Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s Brexit Party, is planning to…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Forbes laments un-Great Britain
Steve Forbes‘ latest musings in Forbes magazine include a critique of British government actions since the 2016 Brexit vote. The country’s economy today is at a virtual standstill, and how…
Liberty
National Review editor muses on Brexit mess
Rich Lowry of National Review focuses his gaze across the pond. Britain is suffering a political meltdown as it struggles to make good on a historic vote in 2016 to…
Liberty
It’s good to have a First Amendment
The unwritten British constitution has no explicit protection of free speech, as Scott Greer of the Daily Caller reminds us. The United Kingdom is responding to its severe terror threat…
Liberty
Another example of the liberal double standard
D.C. McAllister of the Federalist uses a recent J.K. Rowling Twitter rant as the basis for a column exposing a common double standard among liberals. J.K. Rowling lost it on…
Liberty
May Day! May Day!
There haven’t been many good days lately for British Prime Minister Theresa May. Theodore Dalrymple explains why in a City Journal column. Theresa May has proved an apt pupil of…
Law & Public Safety
Farage likens terrorism acceptance to ‘appeasement’
Pete Kasperowicz of the Washington Examiner highlights high-profile Brexit supporter Nigel Farage’s response to the latest terrorist attack in Manchester, England. Former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said Wednesday…
Liberty
Trumpism without Trump in the U.K.
Michael Brendan Dougherty uses a National Review Online column to compare Britain’s prime minister to America’s president. What if you could have Trumpism without Donald Trump? That is, what if…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
JLF president, Brexit architect tout British-American trade in the era of Trump
Kory Swanson joins Matthew Elliott, CEO of the Vote Leave group in the Brexit campaign, to discuss at National Review Online the continuing importance of British-American trade. Elliott will expand…
Liberty
Barron’s writer worries about a different kind of ‘scary clown’
Randall Forsyth of Barron’s documents the dangers posed by “scary clowns,” but not the ones that have been creeping up in recent news reports. It’s a plague that besets our…
Liberty
“Whatever Happened to Adam Smith?”
That’s the title of a recent blog post by Matt Ridley in which he discusses the distressing rise of protectionism. Here’s an excerpt: Last week both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump set out…