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Freedom's triumph

When the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago today, the euphoric East Germans who swarmed through the Brandenberg Gate into West Berlin were also walking into another world. So were the rest of us — but we were less aware of the fact. Until 1989, Europe and ...

From JOHN O' SULLIVAN, New York Post,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  Pope John Paul II,  Margaret Thatcher,  Helmut Kohl,  John Gray

Merkel got her wish, but will it cost her?

Chancellor Angela Merkel won a famous victory for her centre-right coalition in Sunday's German elections. But there is less in this result than meets the eye – and more too. First, Ms. Merkel's victory was clear, but quite narrow. Her popular majority ...

From JOHN O'SULLIVAN, Globe and Mail,  28 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Angela Merkel,  U.S. Democratic Party

Some Comments on the German Elections -- By: John O'Sullivan

Angela Merkel’s “broad Right” has won the German elections by a narrow-but-clear margin. Less than an hour after the polls closed, Franks Steinmeier, the Social Democrat candidate for the chancellorship, conceded defeat in a tough speech that promised ...

From JOHN O'SULLIVAN, The Corner,  27 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Angela Merkel

CONDEMNED BY THEIR OWN LAPTOPS

THE latest twist in the saga of how the British government banned talk-radio host Michael Savage from entering Britain is straight out of the sitcom "Yes, Prime Minister," in which a Machiavellian civil servant, Sir Humphrey, repeatedly manipulates PM ...

From JOHN O'SULLIVAN, New York Post,  29 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Home Office,  Michael Savage,  Gordon Brown,  Jacqui Smith,  David Miliband

Mixed News for the Tories

Mark Steyn hasn’t asked about my thoughts on the significance of the Norwich North special election in Britain last week, perhaps because his last inquiry on the Euro-elections elicited about 1,800 words from me. This prudent lack of curiosity won’t ...

From JOHN O'SULLIVAN, The Corner,  27 Jul 2009
Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  Mark Steyn,  Gordon Brown,  British National Party

America's Russian romance

This week's diplomatic foray into Ukraine and Georgia by U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden has suddenly taken on the appearance of a fire-fighting expedition. And unless fires can be extinguished by bromides, there may soon be a ...

From JOHN O'SULLIVAN, Globe and Mail,  22 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Joe Biden,  NATO,  Vaclav Havel,  Lech Walesa,  Barack Obama

The Prospects for the Cameron Tory Party

About a week ago Mark Steyn invited me to discuss the Cameron Tory party’s prospects in the light of how Britain voted in the local and European elections. Sorry to be such a sloth about it, Mark, but here it is at last: 1. Mark is absolutely right to ...

From JOHN O'SULLIVAN, The Corner,  17 Jun 2009
Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  Mark Steyn,  Liberal Democrats,  Tony Blair,  Margaret Thatcher

THE MOTHER OF ALL BRITISH SCANDALS

'DEMOCRACY," said Winston Churchill, "is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried from time to time." Well, the Mother of Parliaments in London -- where Churchill experienced historic victories and defeats -- is ...

From JOHN O'SULLIVAN, New York Post,  25 May 2009
Related Topics: Winston Churchill,  Gordon Brown,  Guy Fawkes,  House of Commons,  David Cameron

East and West? Not that simple

A tourist visiting Prague or London on recent weekends would not sense that either Central or Western Europe was entering a serious recession. Long crocodile lines of fellow-tourists follow guides holding flags or umbrellas aloft to point the way. ...

From JOHN O'SULLIVAN, Globe and Mail,  9 May 2009
Related Topics: European Commission

The lady turned around Britain's fortunes

Thirty years ago this afternoon, Margaret Thatcher stood on the steps of 10 Downing St. as Britain's new prime minister and intoned what she thought to be the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: "Where there is discord, may we bring harmony ... where ...

From JOHN O'SULLIVAN, Globe and Mail,  4 May 2009
Related Topics: Margaret Thatcher,  Nigel Lawson,  John Campbell,  BBC,  Keith Joseph

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