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Profile:
Full name: Daniel Hannan
Area of interest: Politics
Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph
Email: office@hannan.co.uk
Personal website: http://www.hannan.co.uk
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Blog: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/danielhannan
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Networks: https://twitter.com/DanHannanMEP | http://www.facebook.com/danielhannan
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Biography:
About: Author and journalist, and has been Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999
Education: Marlborough College; Oriel College, Oxford: Modern History (First)
Career: Director, European Research Group, 1994/1999; The Daily Telegraph: Leader writer 1996– ; Special adviser to Michael Howard 1997/1998; has written for The Wall Street Journal, Die Welt, Weltwoche, The Sunday Telegraph, The Catholic Herald, Freedom Today, Brussels Journal, The Spectator
Current position/role: Daily Telegraph leader writer (since 1996); Quarterly column at First Magazine ("the forum for global decision makers")
- also writes/written for: Has also written leading articles for the Telegraph. The Guardian
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Other activities: Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region for the Conservative Party - elected 1999 and re-elected in 2004 - serves on the Internal Market & Consumer Affairs Committee and is a substitute member on the Employment & Social Affairs Committee
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Viewpoints/Insight: Wikipedia: political positions
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Controversy/Criticism: Why has Daniel Hannan become an internet sensation? - MEP's tirade against Gordon Brown is top of YouTube's most viewed, Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 26th March 2009
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Latest work: Contributed a chapter to The Future of the NHS (2006) edited by Dr Michelle Tempest
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- Emmanuel Macron as French president would be terrible for Britain – but not as bad as Marine Le Pen - Let’s get one thing clear at the outset. Marine Le Pen is not “far Right”. She is not, in any meaningful sense, Right-wing at all - 6th May 2017
- The triggering of Article 50 should jolt the last irreconcilable Remainers out of their fantasies - Only now, perhaps, will all sides accept that Britain really is leaving the EU. The triggering of Article 50 sets in motion a legal process. By the end of March 2019, deal or no deal, we shall be out - 21st March 2017
- Brexit is the chance to reform the EU for the good of everyone – if only its rulers could see it - How would we ideally want the other 27 states to relate to Brussels? After all, their prosperity matters to us: wealthy neighbours make good customers. - 4th February 2017
- The High Court's Article 50 ruling highlights the gulf between the country and the elite - 4th November 2016
- Brexit must open our economy to the world – not lock it away behind protectionist barriers - 27th October 2016
- The Norman Conquest was a disaster for England. We should celebrate Naseby, not Hastings - 14th October 2016
- Brexit has broken our political Ice Age. - Bring on the revolution before the big freeze takes hold again - 28th September 2016
- Remoaners are determined to find bad news - 30th July 2016
- We Leavers are not racists, bigots, or hooligans – no matter what the bitter broadcasters say - Since the vote, Remainers have been lashing out like frustrated toddlers - 29th June 2016
- Forget Project Fear. Be positive. Choose dynamism. Choose Brexit - 22nd June 2016
- Not even David Cameron's £9.3 million on a leaflet will sell an idea whose time has passed - 8th April 2016
- The £9m pro-EU leaflet says just one thing: we’re panicking - The in campaign was expecting to be well in front by now. Why else would it resort to such desperate measures? - 7th April 2016
- Thank goodness my beloved Oriel College has come to its senses – it's about time - The beneficiaries of Cecil Rhodes have been acting more like the diversity officer of some far-Left local authority than an august place of learning - 30th January 2016
- We can’t stick with the status quo on the EU – because there isn’t one - If Britain chooses to stay, we will be forced into more damaging political and economic integration - 6th January 2016
- The campaign to topple Oxford University's Cecil Rhodes statue is too silly for words - Almost every historical figure you can imagine did something we now find unpleasant. Oriel College needs to stand up for common sense - 19th December 2015
- Let's dump the EU and rekindle our love affair with India - The visit this week of the Indian Prime Minister is a reminder of the mad EU rules that chain and trammel Britain - 10th November 2015
- Here's what David Cameron should demand from EU leaders - As a Tory MEP, I suggest that this is what our PM say to Donald Tusk in his quest to keep Britain in the European Union - 17th October 2015
- Treaty change is only way to end the migrant crisis - Ministers are missing an opportunity by focusing on domestic legislation and not EU renegotiation - 24th September 2015
- David Cameron has confirmed that he will do anything to keep us in the EU - Every continent on the planet is experiencing economic growth except Europe. We can do better than this - 9th June 2015
- David Cameron should be magnanimous in victory, but true to himself - The Prime Minister needs to reach out to those who didn't vote Conservative without compromising his principles - 9th May 2015
- New jobs for the boys, but the same old EU - Don’t get too excited about Mr Tusk – after all, he’ll never get cross with Angela Merkel - 31st August 2014
- Look who's not voting Tory - One country has bucked the trend for immigrants to support Centre–Left parties - 7th May 2014
- Kipling knew about the paschal mystery - As I found at the grave of Bill Hannan, who died at the Somme, our grief is second-hand but the tragedy touches us across the century - 20th April 2014
- Britain is not a small island: few countries have longer reach - 17th January
- Sadly, the West can’t stop Syria’s suffering - The heartbreaking truth is that we can do little more than offer help from the sidelines - 14th January 2014
- All coups end in petty tyranny, however good the intentions - Britain should scorn the idea that military rule in Egypt is the 'least bad’ - 17th August 2013
- We celebrate the Royal family because it symbolises our liberty - The monarchy may reign over us, but it too is subject to the rule of ancient law - 27th July 2013
- Brazil is close to boiling point - As in much of South America, people have lost faith in the political process - 20th June 2013
- Political comparisons of Shakespeare are odorous - To the left Shakespeare is radical, the right thinks he is a Tory. More reason to celebrate him this week - 20th April 2013
- Europe has to start treating voters like adults - It’s something Brussels will never understand, but we need more democracy, not less - 27th February 2013
- If we can’t do a deal with Europe, leaving it should hold no terrors - Just as ministers become frustrated with the EU – in what Nick Clegg, with his addiction to cliché, calls “a perfect storm” – the EU itself is more or less forcing the United Kingdom to reconsider its membership terms - 2nd January 2013
- Ed Miliband is ignoring British people – they want to leave the EU - A majority of those in Britain recognise that the EU is a failed and dwindling customs union – if only political leaders listened - 20th November 2012
- A day of judgment looms over the EU budget - The vote on the EU budget gives MPs a chance to follow in the steps of Margaret Thatcher - 30th October 2012
- A referendum could be the perfect solution to the perfect storm - The British people want to have a say over our future in Europe - 30th September 2012
- Black Wednesday: Britain was free, but we Tories were done for - Exit from the ERM saw the party spiral into a cycle of reprisals that almost destroyed it - 12th September 2012
- Reshuffle all you want – it won't make any difference - No one outside Westminster cares who's minister for what, and reshuffles have little impact on departmental policy - 4th September 2012
- US election 2012: Obama won my support – but it won’t happen again - Both British and US interests would be best served by a victory for Mitt Romney - 1st September 2012
- With every hour that passes, we need the EU less and less - The people of Britain - and Europe - have seen through the great project. When will the elites catch up? - 26th August 2012
- Orwell should have his statue at the BBC - Far from considering him 'Left-wing’, we conservatives rather admire the writer - 24th August 2012
- Here’s how we counter the BBC’s liberal bias - The Guardian-reading elite is waiting to hear from Right-thinking writers and comedians - 15th August
- The euro now equals poverty and deflation - Eurocrats see the survival of the euro as more important than the prosperity of its users - 6th June 2012
- From Holland to Hollande, the answer is 'No’ - Monetary union is the real cause of the maelstrom in Europe - 25th April 2012
- David Cameron has allowed Europe to say FU to its people - The decision to let EU institutions police fiscal union is a massive missed opportunity for Cameron, and for Britain - 1st February 2012 (Writing in The Guardian)
- Britain must show Argentina that it is serious - We are in danger of losing the prestige that victory in the Falklands brought - 23rd December 2011
- Eurocrats are utterly terrified of democracy - Greece’s prime minister is in the doghouse only because he dared to offer voters a choice - 2nd November 2011
- A euro crisis... but also an opportunity for Britain - A new eurozone bond looks the most likely solution to stop the euro blowing apart - 21st July 2011
- David Cameron can't reshape the EU – but the prime minister can reduce Britain's exposure - As Brussels seeks even greater economic integration, it's time for Britain to strike a new and better deal - 8th July 2011
- Cameron must hand power to the people before it’s too late - The Coalition’s plan to shift decision making from state to citizen is being frustrated by Whitehall, with Douglas Carswell - 9th June 2011
- Worse than Gary McKinnon - Andrew Symeou, on trial for murder, would be a cause celebre – if only EU politics wasn't in the way - 13th September 2010
- EU Referendum: Now for the most important vote of all - Daniel Hannan launches a cross-party campaign for a ballot on whether Britain should stay in the EU - 8th September 2010
- Catalonia bullfighting ban: Let the Spanish keep their bullrings - We have no right to lecture Spain, especially given the way we treat our own animals - 30th July 2010
- We are not xenophobes - By labelling those who question the EU, Europhiles are trying to take dissent and debate off the agenda - 6th July 2010 (writing in The Guardian)
- David Cameron doesn't want a row - but the EU won't give him any option - If a levy on financial transactions is imposed, the one bit of our economy with the locomotive power to pull us back to growth will be disabled - 13th June 2010
- How Tories and Lib Dems can make natural reformers - Liberal Democrats and supposedly 'rightwing' Tories are both keen to bring about a revolution in decentralised democracy - 1st June 2010 (writing in The Guardian with Douglas Carswell)
- As the euro fails, Brussels turns on us to save itself - The eurozone crisis and the ambitions of the European Commission will cost us dear - 23rd May 2010
- Reform begins with referendums - It would be absurd to hold a referendum on electoral reform and not on the bigger question of European Union membership - 9th May (writing on The Observer)
- Daniel Hannan: EU is 'in a democratic mess' - The European Union is an economic, demographic and democratic mess - 22nd November 2009
- A President of Europe? When did we ask for that? - One thing is clear about the new EU president, who will be named at a private dinner in Brussels: whoever it is, you won't have had any say - 20th November 2009
- A great EU stitch-up that demeans democracy - The appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton lay bare the rot at the core of the Lisbon project - 20th November 2009 (writing in The Guardian)
- David Cameron is wired up for the new digital age - The internet has changed politics for ever - the people have become more powerful, and David Cameron knows it - 11th September 2009
- Lorca's skeleton speaks of a new Spain - The horror of the Spanish civil war had roots in every town, every village. But until recently, the past was left undisturbed, like the communal graves - 30th August 2009
- There is no harm in agreeing to disagree - Let's return to the good old days when MPs didn't always toe the party line - 28th August 2009
- A primary objective: make MPs answer to the people - Open primaries would make it harder for politicians to forget their voters - 9th August 2009
- We can't have an election until it's too late - European Commissioners are obsessed with the need to keep David Cameron at bay until the Lisbon Treaty is ratified - 21st June 2009
- British politics is turning Continental - After four weeks knocking on doors and talking to voters, I believe that the need for political reform is stronger than ever - 3rd June 2009
- Tired old calls for PR are not the answer – but the radical proposals endorsed by David Cameron are - 27th May 2009
- For once, Gordon Brown had to sit and listen - Daniel Hannan is staggered by the huge global reaction to his home truths about the PM - 27th March 2009
- My wife's real crime? Being middle class - The authorities are tackling soft cases because they won't put themselves out - 8th March 2009
- In search of a more hated species - MEPs are not the most detested politicians after all - 26th February 2009
- Don't knock Labour's VAT cut - We're in for the worst recession of our lives but the VAT cut is not to be sniffed at - 27th December 2008
- Why Eurocrats believe that No is Irish for Yes - For Euro-hirelings, Lisbon isn't about democracy, it's about their mortgages - 14th December 2008
- Brussels won't take 'no' for an answer - You obviously didn't understand it the first time, Paddy, so go away and try harder. Such is the EU's message to the people of Ireland - 9th December 2008
- Joining the euro is the worst response - I know that the decline of sterling is bad news. But there is a reason why the pound is taking a pounding - 17th November 2008
- For Conservatives, it has to be Obama - The election of a mixed-race president who opposed Iraq from the beginning would substantially restore America's reputation - 19th October 2008
- EU is exacerbating the financial crisis - Brussels is exploiting the crisis to enfore integrationist measures - 6th October 2008
- Ten steps to making Britain work again - 26th September 2008
- Motion better than worst Poet Laureate - Motion is not the first man in the office to struggle for inspiration - 17th September 2008
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