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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

It will be good for Britain if Jeremy Corbyn wins his fight to stay as leader of the Labour Party. I agree with the late Queen Mother that the best political arrangement for this country is a good old ...

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 ...

The only thing that could have got me to travel to London on the dawn bus this morning (the dawn train was mysteriously cancelled) was a debate about the Russian Revolution, and so I did. Here is the ...

In the long-ago summer of 2010, I found myself in the beautiful harbour of Sevastopol, surveying the rival fleets of Russia and Ukraine as they rode at anchor in the lovely Crimean sunshine. One great ...

Britain’s most senior naval officer last night complained that the British government had insulted him in a row over intelligence and security. Admiral Lord West of Spithead, 72, a decorated Falklands ...

Who decided to send British troops to Ukraine? What are they doing there? What would happen were they to be killed by Russian forces, or captured by them? And what was a British surveillance plane, ...

PH: Is this about ‘comprehension’? Or is it about self-serving prejudice? What ‘crucial facts’ does the leaked e-mail miss? Let us see. Note that the National Endowment for Democracy is a largely ...