Dan Hannan

Daniel Hannan is a member of the House of Lords and a former Conservative MEP. Find him on X @DanielJHannan

Republicans have had seven years to design a better replacement. Yet, when the moment came, congressional Republicans fluffed it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obamacare is here to stay

Dan Hannan · July 31, 2017 4:01 am

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson chats with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir before he departs from the Royal Terminal in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 13. Saudi Arabia demanding the closure of Al Jazeera is like China demanding the closure of Fox News. Instead, knowing which buttons to press in the West, they accuse Qatar of promoting jihad. (U.S. State Department via AP)

US should stop coddling the Saudis on Qatar

Dan Hannan · July 24, 2017 4:01 am

On almost every measure, Western societies have become more tolerant. Racial violence has declined. Lynchings are part of an almost unimaginable past, and ethnically-motivated assaults are at an all-time low. The legal and quasi-legal forms of discrimination and segregation that persisted into the 1960s have been dismantled.

We’re very jumpy about racism, and that’s a good sign

Dan Hannan · July 17, 2017 4:01 am

Anti-government demonstrators sit under a bridge that has graffiti written in Spanish that reads "Hunger," during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 1. Demonstrators are taking to the streets after three months of continued protests that has left dozens dead and seen the country's chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega barred from leaving the country and her bank accounts frozen, by the Supreme Court following her mounting criticisms of President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

In Venezuela, the destructive force of socialism is at work

Dan Hannan · July 10, 2017 4:00 am

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and other prominent mainstream Democrats are inviting the legitimization of violence and dehumanizing language by implying Republican healthcare reforms are efforts to harm — or even kill — the poor. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Punch a Nazi, shoot a Republican — how far you want to take it is a matter of taste

Dan Hannan · July 3, 2017 4:01 am

Spanish bullfighter Ivan Fandino performs with a bull from the Pedraza de Yeltes ranch, at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

The death of a matador will, paradoxically, make bullfighting more popular

Dan Hannan · June 26, 2017 4:03 am

DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds leaves 10 Downing Street following a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May in London, Thursday June 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

Pro-life, pro-Brexit, pro-UK: How Northern Ireland’s DUP became the enemy of the Left

Dan Hannan · June 19, 2017 4:01 am

Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, bottom center, waves after arriving for the declaration at his constituency in London on June 9. Britain voted Thursday in an election that started out as an attempt by Prime Minister Theresa May to increase her party's majority in Parliament ahead of Brexit negotiations but was upended by terror attacks in Manchester and London during the campaign's closing days. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Hannan: Young Brits vote for free stuff

Dan Hannan · June 9, 2017 4:57 pm

As the economic historian Deirdre McCloskey has shown, most human beings lived on $3 a day until around 200 years ago. Since then, our average global income has increased by 3,000 percent.

Good globalization and bad globalization

Dan Hannan · June 5, 2017 4:01 am

All you can do is keep track of the potential terrorists -- something which, in general, we are doing pretty well. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

There’s no such thing as total security from terrorism

Dan Hannan · May 25, 2017 9:21 pm

English has been adopted by almost every international association, from APEC to OPEC.

Eurocrats resent the spread of the English language

Dan Hannan · May 22, 2017 4:02 am

The best thing about Trump's corporate tax cut is that it makes his tariffs and import restrictions wholly unnecessary. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

How Trump may come to Europe’s rescue

Dan Hannan · May 15, 2017 12:00 pm