Peter Mullen

The Dean of St Paul's, Graeme Knowles, resigned in confusion (Photo: PA)

Why has it taken until now for the authorities to move to eject the protesters outside St Paul’s? First, because the cathedral authorities could not agree that the removal of the protesters was the right thing to do. That confusion led to the resignation of both the Canon Chancellor and the Dean. And secondly because the Corporation of the City of London has only over these last two days decided to take legal action to get rid of the eyesore which is that campsite.

But if you want to know the background to all this fudge, indecision and inaction, you will have to make a little historical study. That protesters have not been removed is because of the peculiar character of the Church of England… Read More

We don't need one of these... yet.

It is one thing for David Cameron to say, as he said at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet, that it is “in our interests” to remain in the EU. Would he, I wonder, say it was in our interests to be part of a greater Germany?

The way things are going, they might soon amount to the same thing. Angela Merkel declared last Monday that Europe is in its most dangerous predicament “since the Second World War”. The solution, as she said, is “more Europe, not less”.

In other words the ambitions of Germany are made plain: what is being envisaged in Mrs Angela Merkel’s mind is a unified Europe, a superstate, in which the most powerful, and therefore dominating, nation would be Germany. The superstate was planned from the beginning by… Read More