The wisdom of pitchfork-wielding crowds
In a way the headline to my fellow columnist Dominic Lawson’s Sunday Times commentary on 12 April said it all.…
The winged rabbit who made me a Tory
His father’s dental cast, writes Graham Greene near the beginning of The Power and the Glory ‘had been [Trench’s] favourite…
The winged rabbit who made me a Tory
His father’s dental cast, writes Graham Greene near the beginning of The Power and the Glory ‘had been [Trench’s] favourite…
It’s the Labour moderates who need to get real
It has become commonplace to remark that there exists in Britain a mainstream political grouping that seems to be dwelling…
It’s the Labour moderates who need to get real
It has become commonplace to remark that there exists in Britain a mainstream political grouping that seems to be dwelling…
Are we ready for virtual-reality news?
John Humphrys staggering around in a piece of ‘virtual reality’ headgear that looked like binoculars and made him feel sick…
Are we ready for virtual-reality news?
John Humphrys staggering around in a piece of ‘virtual reality’ headgear that looked like binoculars and made him feel sick…
From Rhexit to Brexit
We are all of us to some degree prisoners of our own experience. Experience may teach, of course — may…
From Rhexit to Brexit
We are all of us to some degree prisoners of our own experience. Experience may teach, of course — may…
Why I now believe in positive discrimination
The Prime Minister no doubt knew he would be fanning the flames when he waded into the argument about the…
Why I now believe in positive discrimination
The Prime Minister no doubt knew he would be fanning the flames when he waded into the argument about the…
Rhodes’s statue should remain, on one condition
Lobengula was the second king of the Matabele people in what is now Zimbabwe. He was also the last. Cecil…
Rhodes’s statue should remain, on one condition
Lobengula was the second king of the Matabele people in what is now Zimbabwe. He was also the last. Cecil…
Our leaders’ suicidal urge to sex it up
It has been over a month since Parliament voted to bomb Isis in Syria, yet in that time there have…
Our leaders’ suicidal urge to sex it up
It has been over a month since Parliament voted to bomb Isis in Syria, yet in that time there have…
The question Christianity fails to answer: ‘Who is my neighbour?’
‘Fine old Christmas,’ wrote George Eliot, ‘with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in…
The question Christianity fails to answer: ‘Who is my neighbour?’
‘Fine old Christmas,’ wrote George Eliot, ‘with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in…
Is the Archbishop of Canterbury forsaking God?
The Archbishop of Canterbury, we heard during the BBC’s Songs of Praise broadcast last Sunday, ‘doubted God’ after the Paris…
Is the Archbishop of Canterbury forsaking God?
The Archbishop of Canterbury, we heard during the BBC’s Songs of Praise broadcast last Sunday, ‘doubted God’ after the Paris…
Here’s what’s wrong with the ‘public sector ethos’
An infuriating benefit of readers’ online comments beneath the efforts of a columnist like me is that as you read…
Without a word of advice, Paul Methuen set me free
At the time he will barely have noticed me. In his mid-forties and (to me at 18) middle-aged, he was…
Without a word of advice, Paul Methuen set me free
At the time he will barely have noticed me. In his mid-forties and (to me at 18) middle-aged, he was…
OK: I’m convinced: one EU referendum might not be enough
We now have to take seriously the possibility that in the EU referendum Britain will vote to leave. I had…
OK: I’m convinced: one EU referendum might not be enough
We now have to take seriously the possibility that in the EU referendum Britain will vote to leave. I had…
Here’s what’s wrong with the ‘public sector ethos’
Matthew Parris 14 November 2015 9:00 am
An infuriating benefit of readers’ online comments beneath the efforts of a columnist like me is that as you read…