by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
I’m on my way back to the United States from England. My election-week coverage (starting here and ending here) is finished, but I’m still in the mood to write about the United Kingdom. Yesterday, I shared some “Great Moments in British Government” and today I want to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 14, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
Technically, my coverage of U.K election week began last Monday with a look at Jeremy Corbyn’s radical statism, and ended yesterday with some analysis of Boris Johnson’s victory. But since I’m still in England, this is an opportune time for a new edition of Great...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 13, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
I was very surprised by the 2016 election in the United States, but I didn’t have a rooting interest, so I watched the results mostly for reasons of morbid curiosity. Because of my support for Brexit, by contrast, I was intensely interested in the results of...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 12, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
Today’s election in the United Kingdom presumably will decide Brexit, more than three years after the British people voted to leave. If Boris Johnson wins, the government will honor the results of the 2016 referendum and extricate the United Kingdom from the European...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
For two simple reasons, I want Boris Johnson to win a clear majority tomorrow in the elections for the British Parliament. He’s not a lunatic socialist, like Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party and the British version of Bernie Sanders. He’s promised a real...