General elections are how 'the people' decide

Tory Prime Minister, Edward Heath, on winning the 1970 general election

Some people say it was undemocratic for Britain to join the European Community in 1973 because ‘the people’ weren’t asked in a referendum. But that’s not how decisions are made in Britain.

80 years ago: The start of World War Two

It was 80 years ago – on 1 September 1939 – that the Second World War started, when the German Nazi army launched a ferocious and unprovoked invasion of Poland.

The EU was started for one purpose: peace

On Remembrance Sunday we commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.

Britain wasn't misled in the 1975 referendum

Brexiters often claim that in Britain’s first referendum of 1975, voters were misled into believing that the Common Market – now called the European Union – was just about ‘free trade’. But that’s not correct. (Article continues after the 5-minute video.)

The EU was started for one purpose: peace

Sixty-one years ago, on 25 March 1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed by six European countries to form a remarkable new community.

Proud to be British and European

Wanting to get away yesterday from the maddening crowds of the EU referendum debate, I took a Sunday afternoon break to the quintessentially English town of Marlow in Buckinghamshire.