Helen Dale in Law & Liberty charts the meteoric rise of the Reform Party, which has elbowed aside the Conservatives as the UK’s voice of the right and is more popular than the new-ish Labour government. Reform’s seemingly sudden surge has actually been a long time in the making, its gadfly leader Nigel Farage having carried his torch and beaten his drum for over two decades.

Blueprint for Alberta?
Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.


