NB the below is a revised and updated (and occasionally annotated) republication of an article first published in 2013, which itself republishes one written in 2001. Needless to say that if I were ...

Here is a recording of the astonishing interview of Lord Sumption, a former member of the Supreme Court and last year's Reith Lecturer, on BBC Radio 4's World at One today , Monday 30th March 2020. It ...

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 ...

On Sunday morning a woman rushed out of a side road in a quiet Oxford suburb, violently knocked me off my bicycle and mangled the machine I was riding. Quite understandable, some of you may think.

Not Much Time Left to Save Julian Assange From Extradition - So Please Act ...

My conversation with Kevin O'Sullivan of Talk Radio on Monday 28th - The IRA, forgiveness ..and the Panicdemic ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is amazing how many times I am confronted at debates, on the Internet and in discussions with apparently intelligent people, with the same stupid arguments for weakening the drug laws. I recently ...

We have been rubbing Russia up the wrong way for nearly 25 years. It is hard to see why. Moscow could have been our friend if we had wanted that. We rightly viewed the old Soviet Union as a global ...

The following extracts come from Winston Churchill’s own account of the crisis which led to the Second World War. They are to be found in Chapter 19 of the ‘The Gathering Storm’ ‘Prague, Albania and ...

Here are some thoughts about Linda Grant’s new novel ‘Upstairs at the Party’ , published this week, in the writing of which I played a small part (mentioned in the acknowledgements). It is about what ...