Alexandra is a liberal right commentator and columnist. She tweets at @alexandralswann
UKIP's Christian soldiers
UKIP has been smeared left and right (and by Left and Right). But the party's crazy "Christian Manifesto" is a licence to promote real bigotry and to make the lives of gay people truly miserable. What is UKIP playing at?
- 29 April 2015
A budget of sound bites not substance
This budget did little more than tinker around the economy’s edges. Osborne desperately needs to take tougher decisions
- 21 March 2013
Raise MPs' salaries
Let's be honest, our current set of MPs includes a mere handful who inspire. Perhaps a pay rise might entice a better sort
- 6 February 2013
Jesse Jackson… Eurosceptic!
The Labour Party's stance on Europe grows stranger by the day
- 1 February 2013
Defending democracy: Does the BNP deserve your cash?
The BNP is wrong on just about every level, but so would be stopping its funding
- 25 January 2013
The honour of MEPs, a Eurocrat, and a Brussels wonk
This year's honours list includes a Tory, a Labour, even a Lib Dem, a Eurocrat, and a Brussels wonk. Who possibly has been missed out?
- 2 January 2013
More independence than Salmond bargained for?
The odds on the referendum of Autumn 2014 proving to be Salmond’s political death warrant have just tripled
- 7 December 2012
There will never be a UKIP-Tory pact
UKIP is a party in its own right that will not be bought off by crumbs from the Tory table of government
- 26 November 2012
BRUSSELS SPROUTS: Kafka's EU fruit and veg fiasco
Franz Kafka could not have thought up this latest EU bureaucratic nightmare, but Britain isn't innocent either
- 9 November 2012
Golly Ghosh: Blame Cameron's policies not background
Dame Helen Ghosh, one of Whitehall’s most senior civil servants, has come out this week to sensationally claim that Cameron runs his government with “an Eton-Oxford old boys” clique”
- 3 November 2012
Brussels Diary: Senior Tory MEP admits UKIP poses direct threat to Tory election hopes
Senior Tory MEP Charles Tannock says UKIP cost Conservatives 20-30 seats at last general election
- 27 October 2012
Brussels Diary: Rejecting the Nobel Peace Prize
From Tories proscribing UKIPers, Corby by-election hopes and the bizarre EU award today; Alexandra Swann brings us her excellent Brussels diary
- 12 October 2012
The Brussels Diary: UKIP conference edition
A busy week away from Brussels at the Bournemouth West UKIP meeting and the UKIP conference
- 28 September 2012
The Brussels Diary: Federal Europe is on its way
Federal Europe is on its way and the British people have been pushed too far already. It's just a shame that Westminster and the vast majority of the British main stream media isn't listening
- 14 September 2012
Brussels Diary: The fight for Dracula's gold and rights of the poor edition
Socialists do not tend to support things that might lose them their electorate. Keeping the poor poor is a standard trick of the left. What would they do if "ordinary people" were no longer dependent on them?
- 8 September 2012
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