In my mind, one of the reasons American newspapers dying is that they are boring and predictable. It's rare to read such lively and scathing opinion as you can find any day in the British press.
This week, voters go to the poll to elect members of the European parliament to which Gerald Warner writes Now is the time to leave the evil empire of Europe.
The European Union is an enclosed tyranny, addicted to micromanagement of its subjects' lives and devoid of any kind of cultural coherence. It is the worst example in world history of the arrogance and wastefulness of an untrammelled bureaucracy. The greatest single step Britain could take towards freedom and self-fulfilment would be to remove itself from the control of this behemoth.
The EU, like its partner in corruption the United Nations, is a totally artificial construct. It has no roots in any real society and exists only as a vehicle for the power-hungry and the greedy to indulge their unhealthy appetites. Guarantor of European peace? Get real: who seriously believes we would have spent any part of the past 40 years at war with Germany, but for the benevolent interposition of Brussels? Metternich's Concert of Europe it is not.
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Britain has always been different from continental Europe and it would probably be better if it found its own way for the same reasons that the article's author criticizes the EU -- for it to succeed in England, I think it'd need a sense of purpose -- but the idea that foregoing the EU would preserve freedom in Britain is a bit silly. Britain has been finding its own way toward tyranny all by itself, whether by behaviour regulation (ASBOs, progressively worse nanny state, etc.) or anti-liberty laws in the name of terrorism prevention.
A mild example: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/6095/