Full text of a speech given at an event hosted by Political City in London, on September 26th, 2016.

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I believe that, for many years, Britain did quite well out of being in the EU. If you are the global hegemon – the US in the 1950s, the UK in the 1850s – the trade deals you make are a projection and reflection of your power. You tell other smaller countries that and how you are going to trade with them, and they like it. If...

The following is the text of a speech given in St. John's, Newfoundland on the 75th Anniversary of the Atlantic Conference and appears with the consent of the author

I assume I was invited here as a biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and would like to speak of how the relations developed between Roosevelt and Churchill coming up to the Atlantic Conference of August 1941. Roosevelt had often visited Britain as a youth and youn...

Speech to the Institute of Public Affairs,
The Grand Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
 
 
Ladies and gentlemen,

It’s a great honour for me to address the Institute of Public Affairs, whose fame reaches well beyond Australia as a paladin fighting for free-market ideas and political liberty. Since the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in Britain - from whence Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the British West Indies also derive thei...

Speech to the Canada Commonwealth Trade Forum

Mayfield Inn and Suites

Edmonton, Alberta
 
 
Ladies and gentlemen, I would be remiss not to thank the sponsors of this event for their kind invitation. In particular, I want to thank LCol. Colin Reichle, and the Edmonton Branch of the RCS for their hospitality. Although, I was born in Ontario, and have spent most of my life there, I did live six years in northeastern BC, in the Peac...

Speech to the Royal Commonwealth Society

Commonwealth Club

London U.K.
 
Mister Chairman, fellow participants, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen –

First, I would like to extend my thanks to Dev Das, Stuart Mole, and the RCS for their kind and gracious invitation to participate in this forum. It is also a great honour for me to be here in this institution – a place that combines the best of the Commonwealth’s past with a...