Daniel Hannan thinks the UK stands taller today ....

because of the stand they took on the Syria crisis.   Will someone please tell Mr.Hannan that the world is collectively shaking its head and wondering how they would even came to the day when  their Prime Minister wanted to bomb a sovereign nation that poses not even 1% of the danger to the UK that is posed by thousands of  potential headchoppers, car-bombers, suicide bombers and terrorist jihadists  already in Britain living on the money doled out by Her Royal Majesty's Servants of the Crown.  

How delusional the UK's stiff upper-lippers happen to be never fails to surprise me.   I am waiting to see what the elite like Hannan will have to say when civil war breaks out in the UK in the very near future.  When was the last time Daniel Hannan walked the streets of London heavy with Muslim immigrants?  Does anybody know?

You won't be reading this in many places,     but here goes. Parliament's rejection of military action in Syria has been good for David Cameron and bad for Ed Miliband. More to the point, it has been good for our standing in the world.

Good for David Cameron? How can I possibly say such a thing? Hasn't he just been "undermined", "fatally weakened", "given a bloody nose" and subjected to every other journalistic cliché? The newspapers assure us so: for 72 hours, headlines have reflected the Westminster obsession with which party is "having a good day". But entertain the possibility that most people are less interested in the effectiveness of the Tory whipping operation than in whether we bomb Syria.

A lobby correspondent, seeing a prime minister concede defeat in a Commons vote, automatically thinks: "U-turn, humiliation". A non-journalist is likelier to think: "Cameron listened to the country; what a nice change after Blair." When the PM rose after the vote, I was expecting him to stall: to say that he took note of the wide variety of opinions expressed, that he would be making a statement in due course and yada yada. Instead, he was a model of dignity: he accepted with good grace that the country was against intervention, and promised to honour Parliament's decision......