This has absolutely nothing to do with the coronavirus. But I find it fascinating and it is the culmination of a long search, much like the Hunting of the Snark, which I thought would never end. I am ...

Some readers may be interested in this account of Professor Michie, a lifelong Communist now a prominent adviser to the Johnson government: ...

The Government’s dedicated efforts to destroy our economy and an entire way of life have moved up a step. High streets had just begun to stir feebly back into life after months of enforced shutdown.

In 1975, the United Kingdom government distributed three pamphlets to voters in the weeks before the referendum on our continued membership of what was then the Common Market. I have reproduced them ...

It is curious what stirs people’s emotions. I would have expected my article on smacking to have attracted the most attention when my column was published yesterday. There were a few remarkably stupid ...

Kevin was standing in for Mike Graham, who is away today. My thanks to Jonathan Mayhew-Price for making this available.

My thanks to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for providing me with a link to this report on an alleged use of sarin in Syria. I recommend anyone seriously concerned ...

Last week saw one of the noblest acts of human courage in modern times. Yet it has been given far less attention than it should have been.We often hear it said of soldiers and others that they ‘gave ...

So what has happened to the great Ukrainian offensive, which we were led to believe would dislodge Vladimir Putin’s invading armies? I suppose a surprise is still possible, but it looks as if it has ...

The terror threat is an excuse for our Government to get above itself. It does so in many ways, but I will cite here my own personal experience of dealing with the ...

You may think I am pretty bad now, but you should have seen me when I was 15. I said, did and thought terrible things, which are now hateful to me. The memory of them is pretty much unbearable. I can ...

THIS would make a good TV thriller: a few years in the future, with the world in economic turmoil and the whole planet in a tense, uncertain mess, French-speaking Quebec finally breaks away from ...