Matthew Parris

Matthew Parris is a columnist for The Spectator and The Times.

Lib Dem leader Tim Farron (Photo: Getty)

These days, compassion is for hacks and Lib Dems

3 October 2015 9:00 am

There’s a hard, hard mood out there among the public and I don’t think our newspapers get it at all.…

Lib Dem leader Tim Farron (Photo: Getty)

These days, compassion is for hacks and Lib Dems

1 October 2015 1:00 pm

There’s a hard, hard mood out there among the public and I don’t think our newspapers get it at all.…

Soon we will accept that useless lives should end

19 September 2015 8:00 am

Throughout the short life of the Assisted Dying Bill which failed last week in the Commons, the ‘faith community’ (a…

Soon we will accept that useless lives should end

17 September 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thedeathoftheleft/media.mp3 Throughout the short life of the Assisted Dying Bill which failed last week in the Commons, the ‘faith…

Christianity is silent on my great moral dilemma

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Proximity shouldn’t make a difference — should it? We were on a beach on the European side of the Mediterranean,…

Christianity is silent on my great moral dilemma

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/jeremycorbynsbritain/media.mp3 Proximity shouldn’t make a difference — should it? We were on a beach on the European side of…

The welcome return of the valedictory dispatch

22 August 2015 9:00 am

‘All I ever tried to do was hold a mirror up and show you how beautiful you really are. Shine…

The welcome return of the valedictory dispatch

20 August 2015 1:00 pm

‘All I ever tried to do was hold a mirror up and show you how beautiful you really are. Shine…

If Corbyn wins, he could split the Tories too

8 August 2015 9:00 am

‘Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?’ asked C.P. Cavafy in his poem ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’: Because night has fallen…

If Corbyn wins, he could split the Tories too

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

‘Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?’ asked C.P. Cavafy in his poem ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’: Because night has fallen…

Building this lay-by is all I can think about now

25 July 2015 9:00 am

Many years ago I was encouraged to read Roger Hutchinson’s Calum’s Road. The small and quirky book made a deep…

From Major to minor

25 July 2015 9:00 am

‘Lobbying,’ writes William Waldegrave in this extraordinary memoir, ‘takes many forms.’ But he has surely reported a variant hitherto unrecorded…

Building this lay-by is all I can think about now

23 July 2015 1:00 pm

Many years ago I was encouraged to read Roger Hutchinson’s Calum’s Road. The small and quirky book made a deep…

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Greeks just want to keep what they’ve got

11 July 2015 9:00 am

We were breakfasting outside on the morning of the Greek referendum. The result could only be guessed at and all…

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Greeks just want to keep what they’ve got

9 July 2015 1:00 pm

We were breakfasting outside on the morning of the Greek referendum. The result could only be guessed at and all…

Spy if you must, but don’t give the game away

25 June 2015 1:00 pm

The Snoopers’ Charter. I ought to care about this. I’m a sort of libertarian. I believe in personal freedom. I’m…

Ed’s campaign was fine. The problem is his party

13 June 2015 9:00 am

Patrick Wintour is one of the best political editors around. For the Guardian he’s been for decades a cool and…

Ed’s campaign was fine. The problem is his party

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

Patrick Wintour is one of the best political editors around. For the Guardian he’s been for decades a cool and…

In today’s church, it seems, God can be outvoted

30 May 2015 9:00 am

I see. So now we have the result of the Irish referendum on gay marriage, and now we’ve heard the…

In today’s church, it seems, God can be outvoted

28 May 2015 1:00 pm

I see. So now we have the result of the Irish referendum on gay marriage, and now we’ve heard the…

We columnists have never been more useless

16 May 2015 9:00 am

It takes some agility to shoot yourself in the foot and saw off the branch you’re sitting on, while hoisting…

We columnists have never been more useless

14 May 2015 1:00 pm

It takes some agility to shoot yourself in the foot and saw off the branch you’re sitting on, while hoisting…

The British public is about to make a big mistake

2 May 2015 9:00 am

On the weekend of 25 April 2015 I started to believe that the party I supported might not win an…

The British public is about to make a big mistake

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

On the weekend of 25 April 2015 I started to believe that the party I supported might not win an…