Chris Patten
Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong and a former EU commissioner for external affairs, is Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong and a former EU commissioner for external affairs, is Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
Those who campaigned for the UK to leave the EU, largely on the basis of lies and delusion, have no idea what to do next. But now that the Brexiteers have broken all the crockery in the shop, it is im… read more
In a sense, Brexit began in the 1940s, with WinstonChurchill and his vision of Europe. And the outcome recalls one of Churchill’smore famous aphorisms: “The trouble with committing political suicide i… read more
Even if voters in the UK choose to remain in the EU, Prime Minister David Cameron will have an unpleasant mess to clean up. Rather than focus on the home front, Cameron should take the lead in putting… read more
Governor John Kasich of Ohio will not win the Republican presidential nomination for a simple reason: He is recognizably a sane human being. Watching the incendiary, invective-filled campaigns of his … read more
Today's populists in the US and Europe have manufactured a fictional world. But the virtual reality they have created has none of the bearing on real-world problems that attracts generation after gene… read more
Any denial of academic freedom is a blow struck against the meaning of a university. The irony today is that some of the most worrying attacks on academic freedom have been coming from inside universi… read more
In the UK, a referendum on whether to remain a member of the EU is likely to take place before the end of the year. If, deluded by mendacity and make-believe, British voters choose to quit, they will … read more
This Christmas, the open society is endangered not only from without, by the likes of ISIS, but also by (admittedly far smaller) threats at home. There are other forms of intolerance, infinitely less … read more
