When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
I am, 'Guardian' readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I've lived… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake,… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“They mean people who speak English and believe in small government, whether in San Francisco, Sligo, or Singapore.” — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“As well as being tailored to the circumstances of the recipient, charity allows the donor to make a moral choice. There is virtue in… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Progressives and conservatives alike lean, unconsciously, towards particular conclusions, and then scrabble around to rationalise those conclusions to themselves. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
After Margaret Thatcher's funeral, I spoke at a tribute meeting organised by her supporters in a pub next to St Paul's. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“times. As we lose sight of what the Anglosphere has achieved, we risk losing the institutions that have served to make it what it… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
