Photo: Wikimedia commons Previous sections of this essay: 1/4: The Map of Europe 2/4: ‘The United States of Europe’ 3/4: Human Rights 4. The concept of the European Union. The Conservatives’ irrationality and dishonesty (in that we are no longer as good as our word when we sign an agreement) is compounded by a failure …
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Other sections of this essay: 1/4: The Map of Europe 2/4: ‘The United States of Europe’ 4/4: The European Union 3. Human Rights It’s also worth reminding ourselves that – even more embarrassingly for the present-day Conservatives – Churchill was the instigator of the modern concept of human rights in Europe. In October 1942, he …
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Other sections of this essay: 1/4: The Map of Europe 3/4: Human Rights 4/4: The European Union 2. Churchill’s concept of a ‘United States of Europe’. Mr. Cameron, who first gained power under the false pretence of being a rational, ‘small-c’ conservative, is now the veritable puppet-king of a new Little England that has a …
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Later sections of this essay: 2/4: ‘The United States of Europe’ 3/4: Human Rights 4/4: The European Union 1. The territorial concept of Europe Since when was Europe a separate entity that started the other side of the English Channel? I can remember very well the kind of map of Europe that was hung on …
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