Dan Hannan

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

For what it's worth, the guano-encrusted statue of Cecil Rhodes, which is lodged in a little niche above some permanently closed gates at my old college, Oriel, is barely noticeable. (Wikimedia Commons)

American campus craziness comes to Oxford

Dan Hannan · May 23, 2016 4:01 am

The real reason Donald Trump is unfit to be president

Dan Hannan · May 16, 2016 4:03 am

Britain's Labour MP Naz Shah makes a statement in the House of Commons, London, on April 27. (Parliament TV via AP)

Labour’s Jewish problem

Dan Hannan · May 9, 2016 4:03 am

How did Britain react? Not for the first time, there was a divergence between what the pundits and politicians thought, and what everyone else thought. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Barack bombs in Britain

Dan Hannan · April 29, 2016 4:03 am

As Berin Szoka of think tank TechFreedom puts it: "Europe has a collective insecurity complex about the Internet." When it isn't attacking Google, it's trying to regulate blogs. (istock photo)

The European Union picks a fight with Google

Dan Hannan · April 25, 2016 4:02 am

The British media's complaint, it soon became clear, was that David Cameron was richer than the rest of us, which was meant to make us all very angry. (AP Photo)

What Great Britain can learn from Texas

Dan Hannan · April 18, 2016 4:02 am

French soldiers patrol outside the Paris hall of Justice on March 30 while Frenchman Reda Kriket is being questioned by a magistrate who is expected to file preliminary terrorism charges. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

The terrorist threat is getting serious, but we mustn’t panic

Dan Hannan · April 11, 2016 4:03 am

The growth of international jurisdiction since the early 1990s has been extraordinary. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic, File)

Justice and jurisdiction

Dan Hannan · March 28, 2016 4:03 am

President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands at a bilateral meeting during the G-7 summit in Schloss Elmau hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany. On June 23, Britain will vote on whether to recover her independence. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama should exit the ‘Brexit’ debate

Dan Hannan · March 21, 2016 4:02 am

A migrant father with his child awaits on the Greek side of the border to enter Macedonia near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija on March 1. Macedonian is restricting the entry of refugees to match the number of those leaving the country, allowing in only refugees from Syria and Iraq, in response to bottlenecks further up along the Balkans migrant route. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Misdiagnosing the refugee crisis

Dan Hannan · March 14, 2016 5:01 am

It's noticeable that the Trans-Pacific Partnership which Donald Trump rails against doesn't contain the words "free" or "trade" in its title. Neither does the EU-U.S. deal currently being negotiated, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

A Trump-Clinton race means the end of free-trading America

Dan Hannan · March 7, 2016 5:01 am

European Council President Donald Tusk, left, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, second left, participate in a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron during an EU summit in Brussels on Feb. 19, 2016. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)

Why Americans should back Brexit

Dan Hannan · February 29, 2016 5:02 am