Dan Hannan

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

Palmyra is one of a handful of places on the planet whose presence can't easily be conveyed through a camera lens. (AP Chart)

Islamic State is destroying the common patrimony of the human race

Dan Hannan · June 1, 2015 9:00 am

As Christopher Snowdon put it in a paper for the Institute of Economic Affairs, deregulation on the sale of alcohol in England "made the country a better place to live by treating people as adults and allowing businesses to meet demand." (Getty Image)

Last call in merrie olde England

Dan Hannan · May 25, 2015 9:00 am

Are balanced budgets possible in democracies?Â (iStock)

Are balanced budgets possible in democracies?

Dan Hannan · May 18, 2015 9:00 am

The Scottish National Party has pulled off perhaps the greatest electoral achievement in British history. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

Rising SNP failed to persuade Scots, but might induce the English to secede

Dan Hannan · May 11, 2015 9:00 am

"One party wrecks the economy and the other party fixes it. Why isn't the second party ten points ahead?" (iStock)

Binge-and-purge politics: Reaping and not sowing

Dan Hannan · May 4, 2015 9:00 am

A couple of years ago, Thomas Sowell tracked down the origin of the phrase "trickle down."(iStock Photo)

Why conservatives have more empathy than liberals

Dan Hannan · April 27, 2015 9:00 am

Republican presidential hopeful Texas Gov. George W. Bush, right, embraces his younger brother Florida Gov. Jeb Bush after he introduced him to a gathering at a fund-raiser in Orlando, Fla., November 1999. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)

We may have the monarchy, but you have the hereditary ruling class

Dan Hannan · April 20, 2015 9:00 am

Flowers and stones are placed near the scene where Walter Scott was killed by a North Charleston, S.C., police officer Saturday. (AP Photo)Â

Race relations in America have never been better

Dan Hannan · April 13, 2015 9:00 am

Supporters of religious liberty rarely champion gay rights, and supporters of gay rights can be scarily intolerant when it comes to the rights of people who don't believe in gay marriage. (AP Photo)

Boycott Hoosiers, embrace ayatollahs?

Dan Hannan · April 6, 2015 9:00 am

Americans take terrorism and nuclear proliferation and Islamism seriously.Â (iStock)

Israeli voters understand the limits of appeasement

Dan Hannan · March 23, 2015 9:00 am

My dreadlocked friends assumed that conservatives were automatically "on the side of the rich." (iStock Photo)

If you’re for the little guy, you should be a conservative

Dan Hannan · March 16, 2015 9:00 am

Kill Obamacare, or U.S. healthcare will suffer same fate as Britain

Dan Hannan · March 9, 2015 9:00 am