Henry C.H. Hill
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Henry C H Hill is an Anglo-Irish political commentator and Conservative & Unionist Party activist. He has authored his blog, Dilettante, since May 2010 and has since written for many places including the Telegraph, the Commentator and the Student Journals. He is editor-in-chief of the long-running unionist website Open Unionism, and recently took up the editorship of BullsEye, the magazine produced by the youth wing of the European People's Party.

In 2011, he picked up six ranked positions in the Total Politics blog awards, being voted a top-ten Conservative and top-twenty right-wing commentator. He also won the Adam Smith Institute's Young Writer on Liberty award.

After completing a bachelor's degree in History at the University of Manchester he acquired his NCTJ Diploma in Journalism from News Associates. He is now embarked on an MPhil in Modern Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin.

Blog Entries by Henry C.H. Hill

Salmond's Choice

(4) Comments | Posted 23 October 2012 | (23:03)

NATO is a problematic issue for the SNP. On the one hand, the leadership believe that opposition to the alliance was a policy adopted in the depths of opposition and hurts the party's credibility - and the credibility of the independent Scotland it hopes to build. On the other, a...

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The Challenges Facing the Constitutional Convention

(0) Comments | Posted 10 October 2012 | (01:00)

The Telegraph carries the news that David Cameron, supported by Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, is planning to set up a permanent constitutional convention to draw up a devolution settlement that accommodates a pan-UK perspective. Apparently, the PM has called the Scotland Act the limit of "bilateral devolution",...

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No Need for a Post-Union Jack

(134) Comments | Posted 18 September 2012 | (01:00)

At some point in 2014, Scotland is going to hold a referendum on whether or not to dissolve her three-century union with the rest of the United Kingdom.

I'm personally opposed to this development, and moreover I think it unlikely to happen. Of course there are others, either pessimists or...

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