Author: John Petley

Has Ancestry.co.uk ​been nobbled? 

Has Ancestry.co.uk ​been nobbled?

Posted by | Mar 18, 2018 | |          

In recent years, there has been a significant upsurge in genealogical research. Programmes like Who do you think you are? have inspired many people to find out who their ancestors were and the internet has greatly facilitated such a task. One website which anyone can can use for research (on payment of a subscription) is ancestry.co.uk and, until recently, I personally had a very favourable impression of it after a very interesting time last year using its facilities to discover a great deal about my origins, going right back to the 17th Century. I’m sure that readers won’t be remotely interested in…

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HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS 

HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS

Posted by | Mar 1, 2018 | |          

The terms proposed by the EU for a transitional deal, even if this had only lasted for 21 months, are totally unacceptable, as we have pointed out. Our fishing industry would be decimated. However, it seems that the government is now talking about this arrangement lasting more than 21 months. Opposition to any transitional agreement on these terms in growing. Mrs May recently received a letter signed by 62 Tory MPs reminding her of the “red lines” in her own Lancaster House speech. These include: Take full control of UK tariff schedules at the WTO with the power to…

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Security – partnership but not participation 

Security – partnership but not participation

Posted by | Feb 22, 2018 | , |          

Mrs May’s speech on security cooperation last Saturday was given in Munich, famous for the meeting between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler in 1938 where an agreement was signed which Mr Chamberlain, on his return to the UK, would lead to “peace in our time”. His hopes were sadly shaken a year later. Mrs May did not come away with any agreement, She was not expecting to. Instead, she went to Munich to deliver a speech which, like that by Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, earlier in the week, was good on mood music and aspiration but not at…

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AN ASSISTED EU COUNCIL PRESIDENCY 

AN ASSISTED EU COUNCIL PRESIDENCY

Posted by | Jan 16, 2018 | |          

Ed ~ This article is republished with the kind permission of the Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIB). It’s not just Greece which has suffered thanks to its membership of the EU. Without even having joined the single currency, Bulgaria already is experiencing considerable hardship as this piece by Horst Teubert shows. (The original first appeared on the German Foreign Policy website and is reused with permission) SOFIA/BRUSSELS/BERLIN – Bulgaria exercises its EU Council presidency – which began January 1 – with Berlin’s direct “counseling” and “assistance,” according to reports of the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The foundation has…

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Immigration – concerns on both sides of the Channel 

Immigration – concerns on both sides of the Channel

Posted by | Dec 17, 2017 | , |          

At a time when positive news on the Brexit front seems to be in short supply, the latest immigration figures, which were published last week have brought some welcome cheer. Long term net migration fell by 106,000 to 230,000 in the year following the vote to leave the EU – the biggest drop since records began in 1964. The number of arrivals in the UK fell by 80,000 and the number of departures rose by 26,000. Even so, this welcome fall still leaves the Government a long way short of its target to bring down net migration below 100,000. Naturally, not…

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