Lights, camera, politics
At the end of Sunday night’s US presidential debate, the moderators snuck in a final question from a slightly shell…
Europe’s summer of terror
How is your Merkelsommer going? For now, Britain seems to be missing the worst. True, a couple of men of…
A trick of the light
There is a moment at the start of most authors’ careers when it is hard to get anything published, and…
Turkey’s triumph
President Erdogan has the EU’s leaders exactly where he wants them
A poem for Erdogan
Pen a foul verse in honour of the Turkish leader and be in the running for a £1,000 poetry prize!
A civilisation under siege
It’s bad enough here, but Europe’s migrant folly is suicidal
The Isis executioner and me
Did my taunt drive Abu Rumaysah to become the new ‘Jihadi John’?
France’s civil war…
...and the struggle facing Europe
Loneliness and the love of friends
When Hugh and Mirabel Cecil’s book In Search of Rex Whistler was published in 2012, the late Brian Sewell reviewed…
Europe’s ever-looser union
Europhiles have warned us for years of the dangers of Britain leaving the EU. But all the while a different…
Europe’s ever-looser union
Europhiles have warned us for years of the dangers of Britain leaving the EU. But all the while a different…
Despair springs eternal
The left is always eager to be told that capitalism’s final crisis is upon us – and it is always disappointed
Florence
The British have always been in love with Florence. First visits cannot disappoint. One friend recalls being herded around as…
Florence
The British have always been in love with Florence. First visits cannot disappoint. One friend recalls being herded around as…
Doctors’ orders
Don’t drink, don’t smoke, keep fit, die young
The people from the sea
Encounters with those who have risked their lives to cross the Mediterranean
The Plame game
Scooter Libby’s conviction looks ever shakier – and a sign of the deep problem with America’s special prosecutors
‘The truth is hard’
Roger Scruton on why we’re losing the battle for western civilisation
‘We’ll get out of this alive’
An interview with Helle Brix, who was at the meeting in Copenhagen on Saturday when the shooting happened
The dangerous lie
Despite what our leaders tell us, Islamic extremism is all about Islam
Thrown to the lions
Why are we abandoning Christians to Isis?
Let the right ones in
It is the easiest thing in the world to say who should come to Britain and why. But if there…






























