For those in want of some holiday reading, CIB Chairman Edward Spalton reflects on Daphne du Maurier’s 1972 novel Rule Britannia. Did the ideas it contained shape British thinking on the EEC and its subsequent incarnations? A longer version of […]
With new prime minister Boris Johnson claiming to be committed to honouring Brexit on 31 October, CIB Chairman Edward Spalton calls on the government to end uncertainty, and start offering clear and prompt advice to all UK firms exporting to the […]
Christopher Booker has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 81 at home in Somerset, surrounded by his close family. Many of us who started to take an interest in the political world in the early Sixties were influenced […]
CIB Chairman Edward Spalton reflects on Veterans for Britain researcher David Banks’s presentation on European defence integration at our 2019 Annual Rally. Banks’s presentation — which can be viewed in full in the video below — showed in meticulous detail […]
Freedom lost a friend and CIB a long-serving member in Alan Sheath who died on January 13th at the age of 90. An impressive, kindly, thoughtful character, Alan’s genial supporting presence graced many independence events of all sorts in the […]
In the morning dark of Armistice Sunday I was walking home from the village war memorial where at six o’clock we had listened to a lone piper playing “The Battle’s O’er”. In a reflective mood, I thought of the contemporaries […]
