Matthew Parris

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

Why it’s time to revive the commonplace book

13 December 2014 9:00 am

Among the gifts that have come my way this Christmas season, none has given me pleasure more immediate or more…

The rare joy of the commonplace book

11 December 2014 3:00 pm

Among the gifts that have come my way this Christmas season, none has given me pleasure more immediate or more…

Matthew Parris: the barbarism of the Twitter mob

29 November 2014 9:00 am

Are we heading for a new barbarism? Is this the return of the 18th-century mob? Here are more questions than…

Signs that the virtual mob is starting to rule

27 November 2014 3:00 pm

Are we heading for a new barbarism? Is this the return of the 18th-century mob? Here are more questions than…

What you’re missing now that you don’t read this in print

15 November 2014 9:00 am

The internet is a frighteningly efficient place for hunter-gathering – but the pleasures of undirected browsing are harder to find online

The lost pleasures of reading a proper newspaper

13 November 2014 3:00 pm

Liverpool airport is a curiously unreal place in the half-light before dawn on a cold November morning. Out across the…

Help me become an addict

1 November 2014 9:00 am

When the White Queen told Alice she had sometimes believed as many as six contradictory things before breakfast, she spoke…

Why I intend to become an addict

30 October 2014 3:00 pm

When the White Queen told Alice she had sometimes believed as many as six contradictory things before breakfast, she spoke…

Reading the comments on my Ukip columns, I finally understand the Nazis

18 October 2014 9:00 am

Like many, I’ve always been a bit baffled by the story of the rise of Nazism. The Germans I’ve met…

Online comments help me understand the Nazis

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_16_Oct_2014_v4.mp3 Like many, I’ve always been a bit baffled by the story of the rise of Nazism. The Germans…

Must MPs always vote before we go to war?

4 October 2014 9:00 am

Jesse Norman was permitted three minutes for his speech to the Commons in last Friday’s debate. But the contribution from…

A third way to war

2 October 2014 1:00 pm

Jesse Norman was permitted three minutes for his speech to the Commons in last Friday’s debate. But the contribution from…

Yes or no, I’ll never feel the same about the Scots

20 September 2014 9:00 am

I doubt I’m alone among English readers of this magazine in having felt uncomfortable with our last issue. ‘Please stay…

I’ll never feel the same about the Scots

18 September 2014 1:00 pm

I doubt I’m alone among English readers of this magazine in having felt uncomfortable with our last issue. ‘Please stay…

‘Rape is rape’ serves no one well, least of all rape victims

6 September 2014 9:00 am

When Mary Jane Mowat remarked recently that rape conviction statistics would not improve ‘until women stop getting so drunk,’ the…

The problem with a wider definition of rape

4 September 2014 1:00 pm

When Mary Jane Mowat remarked recently that rape conviction statistics would not improve ‘until women stop getting so drunk,’ the…

The surer we are that machines can think, the less sure we'll be about people

23 August 2014 9:00 am

Having written (for a Times diary) a few sentences about consciousness in robots, I settled back to study readers’ responses…

The real dilemma of artificial intelligence

21 August 2014 1:00 pm

Having written (for a Times diary) a few sentences about consciousness in robots, I settled back to study readers’ responses…

I found my inner fascist in a letterbox

9 August 2014 9:00 am

There’s a little bit of a fascist in all of us. For some, the tragedy of human want may provoke…

I found my inner fascist in a letterbox

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

There’s a little bit of a fascist in all of us. For some, the tragedy of human want may provoke…

Why I’m against posthumous pardons, even for Alan Turing

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Ross Clark is a columnist I try to read because he is never trite. So I was sorry to miss…

Not even Turing deserves a posthumous pardon

24 July 2014 1:00 pm

Ross Clark is a columnist I try to read because he is never trite. So I was sorry to miss…

What kind of idiot tries to stand in the way of a national child abuse panic? I do

12 July 2014 9:00 am

As essay titles go, ‘On losing an argument with Tim Loughton MP’ may fail to catch the imagination; but there…

There’s no fighting paedophile panic. But I’ll try

10 July 2014 1:00 pm

Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_10_July_2014_v4.mp3 As essay titles go, ‘On losing an argument with Tim Loughton MP’ may fail to catch the imagination;…

Ed Miliband’s problem isn’t his image. It’s us

28 June 2014 9:00 am

That bacon bap earlier this month was not the cause of Ed Miliband’s unpopularity. Ed Miliband’s unpopularity was the cause…