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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

I’ll have a lot more to say about the Great War of 1914-18 on Monday, but amid the verbose sentiment and piety about that ghastly and disastrous episode, I’d like to introduce a cracked, yellow note ...

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 ...

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column Whatever do they teach them in these schools? How do we find out? How can we change it if we do not like it? In the past few years it has become clear ...

For 15 years now, I’ve been trying to explain to left-wingers what ‘left-wing’ means. It is strange that, while many of these people have a clear grasp of modern technology, can ‘get’ references to TV ...