Daniel Hannan ✓

Come the three corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them. 22.2K views · 103 likes · 11 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

This item appeared in @thetimes in 1926. To any Argentines who follow this feed: Britain is not your enemy; it never was; your enemy all along was Peronism. 🇬🇧🇦🇷 https://t.co/pXZtbY8rZ3

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Familiarity has numbed us to the sheer weirdness of what we are doing. A normal country treats its borders as sacrosanct. For hundreds of years, we defended our waters with broadsides and cutlasses. Now, we offer a maritime taxi service to criminals who are seeking to break in to

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We have chosen to throw away more than 30 years of structurally low unemployment. We didn’t need to do it. Plenty of people warned of the consequences. But we chose to do it. ⬇️ 43.9K views · 388 likes · 35 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Daniel Hannan ✓@DanielJHannan6 Sep

So many people refuse to acknowledge the severity of our fiscal crisis. “Yeah, well, if we cut DEI, scrapped foreign aid and stopped immigration, we’d make all the savings we need”. Sure, we should do those things, but the savings would be trivial compared to the huge sums we 34.3K views · 412 likes · 53 reposts · 44 replies Open on X →

Daniel Hannan ✓@DanielJHannan6 Sep

The single biggest threat to our security is our £3 trillion national debt. Our politicians refuse to acknowledge it. They continue to increase spending. But our adversaries have noticed, and are laying their plans accordingly. Paywall down. https://t.co/6pszoojTR0 74.3K views · 672 likes · 194 reposts · 82 replies Open on X →

Daniel Hannan ✓@DanielJHannan3 Sep

@DanielJHannan And, nearly a millennium later, the richest landowner in Britain still has a Norman French name traceable all the way back to 1066. Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster. 2K views · 74 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Daniel Hannan ✓@DanielJHannan3 Sep

@DanielJHannan Rule by Vikings. Could be worse. Wait 'til we have rule by lslam....! RE 1.3K views · 37 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Daniel Hannan ✓@DanielJHannan26 Aug

@DanielJHannan I finally understand the lyrics. Like not ethereally - like with pronunciation. 23.1K views · 600 likes · 2 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

@DanielJHannan This is spooky as hell. How she turned Stairway to Heaven into soulful mountain music I can’t articulate. And always the consummate performer. 50.8K views · 1.6K likes · 20 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

@DanielJHannan And now she's there. https://t.co/sRwtv8P2CS

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@DanielJHannan She recorded Stairway to Heaven twice, in 2002 and 2023. Her husband was a Led Zeppelin fan. 33.6K views · 1.1K likes · 28 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it. https://t.co/rpeIUuumaC

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@DanielJHannan I loved our pre-decimal system. £ s d was easy enough to use. And if you found yourself with two half crowns in your pocket you felt really rich. 2.2K views · 40 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

@DanielJHannan Love you Dan, but decimal was the way to go 3.9K views · 68 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →