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Alex Singleton is a political commentator at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. He has previously written for The Guardian and The Daily Express, and for wide a range of magazines.

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BBC contractor fired in TV Licensing scandal

A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective. We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata ...

From ALEX SINGLETON, Samizdata.net,  13 Dec 2008
Related Topics: BBC,  Movable Type,  Karl Popper,  Ayn Rand,  Virginia Postrel

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A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective. We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata ...

From ALEX SINGLETON, Samizdata.net,  25 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Movable Type,  Karl Popper,  Ayn Rand,  Virginia Postrel

George Bush is right on offshore drilling

President Bush has called for the lifting of the ban on offshore oil drilling. This has not pleased those environmental campaigners who want energy policy firmly focussed on renewables, with fossil fuels phased out. The suggestion has also sparked ...

From ALEX SINGLETON, The Telegraph,  19 Jun 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  John McCain

Gordon Brown's friends desert him

He is joining a club at the paper: his fellow columnist, Polly Toynbee, has accused Mr Brown of managing to "shipwreck himself and his party", while the paper's Economics Editor, Larry Elliott, has criticised the PM and his Chancellor for rejecting ...

From ALEX SINGLETON, The Telegraph,  18 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Polly Toynbee

What has happened to David Cameron's Movement for European Reform?

Has David Cameron’s European reform programme been killed off? In March last year, the Conservatives hired out a warehouse conference centre on the outskirts of Brussels and hosted a meeting to discuss the newly-formed Movement for European Reform. It ...

From ALEX SINGLETON, The Telegraph,  16 Jun 2008
Related Topics: David Cameron,  European Union,  UK Conservative Party,  Vaclav Klaus

David Davis's Goldwater conservatism

Full coverage of UK politics Senator Barry Goldwater never became US president, but he was one of the most influential characters in American politics in the 20th Century. His libertarian-leaning conservatism redirected American politics, helping ...

From ALEX SINGLETON, The Telegraph,  16 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Barry Goldwater,  Ronald Reagan,  David Davis

David Davis’s fight is worth the risk

Full coverage of UK Politics There was a risk yesterday that David Davis’s campaign would simply fall flat, with no one standing against him. But the announcement that the former Sun newspaper editor, Kelvin MacKenzie, plans to run against him means ...

From ALEX SINGLETON, The Telegraph,  13 Jun 2008
Related Topics: David Davis,  Kelvin MacKenzie,  Michael Heseltine

The downside of Lib Dem democracy

Uniquely among the major parties, the Lib Dems let members decide policy – hamstringing the leadership. For example, the party leadership came out in favour of part-privatisation of the Royal Mail, but the proposal was rejected at its 2005 party ...

From ALEX SINGLETON, The Telegraph,  12 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Liberal Democrats,  U.S. Democratic Party

Why is the monarchy a concern for the UN human rights council?

Full coverage of UK Politics Oh my goodness. The United Nations Human Rights Council – that most virtuous of organisations – is concerned about whether human rights in Britain are being violated by the existence of the British monarchy. Yesterday, the ...

From ALEX SINGLETON, The Telegraph,  11 Jun 2008
Related Topics: United Nations

The EU cannot hold back the waves of globalisation

Alex Deane on CentreRight.com reckons that Britain is becoming more eurosceptic. He’s right – and a Global Vision poll published over the weekend says that if voters were offered a referendum on a new trade-only relationship with the EU, 64 per cent ...

From ALEX SINGLETON, The Telegraph,  10 Jun 2008
Related Topics: European Union,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Margaret Thatcher

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