Matthew Parris

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

It’s the Labour moderates who need to get real

19 March 2016 9:00 am

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

17 March 2016 3:00 pm

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?

5 March 2016 9:00 am

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?

3 March 2016 3:00 pm

John Humphrys staggering around in a piece of ‘virtual reality’ headgear that looked like binoculars and made him feel sick…

From Rhexit to Brexit

20 February 2016 9:00 am

We are all of us to some degree prisoners of our own experience. Experience may teach, of course — may…

From Rhexit to Brexit

18 February 2016 3:00 pm

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

6 February 2016 9:00 am

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

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

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

23 January 2016 9:00 am

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

21 January 2016 3:00 pm

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

9 January 2016 9:00 am

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

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

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?’

12 December 2015 9:00 am

‘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?’

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

‘Fine old Christmas,’ wrote George Eliot, ‘with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in…

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Is the Archbishop of Canterbury forsaking God?

28 November 2015 9:00 am

The Archbishop of Canterbury, we heard during the BBC’s Songs of Praise broadcast last Sunday, ‘doubted God’ after the Paris…

(Photo: Getty)

Is the Archbishop of Canterbury forsaking God?

26 November 2015 3:00 pm

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’

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…

Here’s what’s wrong with the ‘public sector ethos’

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

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

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

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

29 October 2015 9:00 am

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

17 October 2015 9:00 am

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

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

We now have to take seriously the possibility that in the EU referendum Britain will vote to leave. I had…

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…