Election notebook
Earlier this summer left-wing activists announced a ‘semi-autonomous zone’ in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. Denuded of law enforcement…
My week with the baying mob
Portland, Oregon In the days when you could still watch a nature documentary without feeling as if you were sitting…
The transatlantic mask divide
Should we wear our masks? The question has been on my mind as I have been battered that way and…
Conservative comeback
Will the Moore and Dacre appointments be a turning point?
The police’s picky attitude to protests
I’ve never been a great fan of public demonstrations. When I was at university, one of the great causes du…
Who would risk being a government adviser?
Poor Tony Abbott. It would seem being prime minister of Australia doesn’t bring you to the attention of the British…
In defence of Tony Abbott
You sometimes wonder whether we live in an adult country anymore. For the last two days the broadcast media has…
US protestors are clearing the way for Trump
‘This city is not going to stop burning itself down until they [the protestors] know that this officer has been…
Protesters are clearing a path for Trump
‘This city is not going to stop burning itself down until they [the protesters] know that this officer has been…
Muddle East
The Foreign Office has lost the plot
The inflated currency of racism
Hearing that Dawn Butler MP had been pulled over by the Metropolitan police, I briefly hoped the taxpayer might get…
Courting disaster
The case of Johnny Depp vs the Sun, heard over recent weeks at the High Court in London, certainly gives…
No love lost
A book about breaking confidences, not to mention friendships, rather begs the same in return. Reading Anne Applebaum’s brief memoir…
My fears for my church have been realised
The only memorable argument I have ever heard in that tedious debate about whether Shakespeare was a Catholic came from…
What is the point of the New York Times?
Earlier today, Bari Weiss resigned from the New York Times and published a devastating letter of resignation on her website…
Moving mountains
Donald Trump is fighting back against America’s historical revisionists
Don’t play a game you can’t win
Of all the people who have made cash in the past month, few can have raked it in like Robin…
What isn’t being said about the Reading attack victims?
Imagine if on Saturday evening a white neo-Nazi had stabbed three men to death. Imagine, furthermore, if in the wake…
The new inequality
It is a strange habit, the American one of making talk-show hosts into preachers. There is no good reason, after…
Worship anywhere – apart from in church
During these months of inertia, I confess to having on occasion made illicit trips to churches in the English countryside.…
Can’t stand free speech? You’re fired!
Since the whole world is in crisis, a crisis in the world of publishing might seem like a niche issue.…
A question of tolerance
Our public figures must rediscover the true spirit of liberty
What the response to London’s young graffiti cleaners reveals
Further Black Lives Matter protests took place yesterday in the UK, in response to the death of a man at…
A US import we can do without
It is nearly four years since Black Lives Matter had their first major protest in London. Emulating their US counterparts,…
Why should Cummings be sacked for protecting his family?
There have been an enormous number of positive attributes on display during the lockdown. Family members keeping an eye on…
