Scotland will be gone within a decade unless there is dramatic change. If Scotland votes for independence next week, it is the British establishment and the establishment alone that is to blame. The yes surge is not being driven by blood-and-soil nationalism, by dewy-eyed Celtic nostalgia or the resurrection of a Braveheart spirit. It is a defiant protest at a bankrupt order built by Margaret Thatcher... 

The EU Commission recently distributed millions of 2011 diaries to schools, sparking controversy and accusations of bias. Filled with disdain and envy, critics argue that the European Union’s leadership shares an unsettling alignment with Islamic extremists, both seemingly determined to undermine Western civilization. The ideological clash centers on the EU’s perceived contempt for Christian... 

Thirty years ago, the Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan found himself in almost exactly the same predicament Gordon Brown does today. In 1979, the British public finances were in disarray. However, a general election against Margaret Thatcher’s resurgent Tory Party was just round the corner. Callaghan faced a hideous choice: he could come clean about the scale of the problem and make deep and... 

Every day we open our newspaper, switch on the television news or trawl the internet, we learn of yet another monstrous but mistaken decision by Gordon Brown and his demoralised rabble of a government — and each decision is yet more proof of his extraordinary talent for preaching like a Presbyterian elder while acting like a dodgy hedge-fund manager. After newspaper revelations about MPs’ outrageous...