Nigel Jones

This is Netanyahu’s Churchill moment

15 June 2025 4:25 pm

History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now finds himself in precisely…

Farewell to the Frederick Forsyth I knew

10 June 2025 7:17 pm

We writers generally live dull and boring lives, tied to our desks painfully wresting words out of mundane experiences: not…

Zia Yusuf’s resignation won’t harm Reform

6 June 2025 4:53 pm

The sudden resignation of Reform UK’s chairman Zia Yusuf came as a shock in Westminster yesterday – but is unlikely…

Lord Hermer’s ‘Nazi jibe’ at Reform won’t work

30 May 2025 7:19 pm

It is an axiom of political debate that once you compare your opponents to Hitler’s Nazis you have definitely lost…

Reform must prove to voters they’re more than a protest party

23 May 2025 5:01 pm

Reform is now touching 30 per cent in the polls, as Labour lags on 22 per cent and the Tories…

The far right is gaining footholds across Europe

19 May 2025 4:30 pm

The relentless rise of the populist right in Europe has been confirmed by provisional first results of elections held yesterday…

A Dad’s Army won’t save Britain

19 May 2025 12:56 am

Eighty-five years ago, on 14 May 1940, Anthony Eden, newly-appointed secretary of war in Winston Churchill’s government, went on the…

Rupert Lowe faces life in the political wilderness

15 May 2025 11:26 pm

Rupert Lowe must currently be the most frustrated man in British politics. The MP has been exonerated of accusations brought…

Could the death penalty return?

11 May 2025 11:50 pm

The attack on a prison officer by Axel Rudakubana, the killer of the three girls at a dance class in…

Why the First Sea Lord stepping down is so shocking

10 May 2025 9:12 pm

The news that First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key, the head of the Royal Navy, has stepped down from his…

Donald Trump needs a history lesson

6 May 2025 3:42 am

President Donald Trump has again demonstrated his less than impressive grasp of history with a statement on his Truth Social…

How great political parties die

5 May 2025 3:48 am

Though local polls and by-elections are notoriously unreliable guides to general elections, and a week is indeed a long time…

Labelling the AfD ‘extremists’ will backfire

2 May 2025 11:47 pm

By officially classing the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as ‘right-wing extremists’, the German establishment may have scored an own…

Has Reform sent the Tories into a death spiral?

2 May 2025 5:43 pm

The Turquoise typhoon that is Reform UK has swept through the English council and mayoral elections – and winning by…

How Mario Vargas Llosa was inspired by Thatcher

16 April 2025 12:28 am

Most writers – like the vast majority of actors, artists and other luminaries of our culture – belong to the…

German tanks always flop. The Leopard 2 is no different

15 April 2025 1:54 am

The much-vaunted German Leopard 2 tank – 18 of which were sent to Ukraine in 2023 after prolonged national debates…

The case for uniting the right

11 April 2025 8:46 pm

In just three weeks, voters in some 20 local council areas and in the Runcorn and Helsby parliamentary by-election go…

The BBC is right to restore this paedophile’s sculpture

10 April 2025 8:16 pm

The BBC is once again at the centre of criticism – this time for spending more than £500,000 in restoring the vandalised…

The University of Sussex has learned nothing from the Kathleen Stock debacle

26 March 2025 10:20 pm

The University of Sussex, one of the leading temples of progressivism in academia, has been fined £585,000 for failing to…

Oleg Gordievsky: the double agent Russia never stopped hunting

23 March 2025 2:22 am

The death of Oleg Gordievsky at the age of 86 comes at a moment when relations between his native Russia…

The JFK files will infuriate conspiracy theorists

20 March 2025 4:37 pm

When Donald Trump ordered the declassification of thousands of secret government documents on the assassination of president John F Kennedy,…

Reform are setting Labour’s agenda

15 March 2025 7:33 pm

No two politicians could be less alike than Sir Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage. But it looks as though the…

Save Eastbourne’s bowls club!

13 March 2025 9:05 pm

Somewhat unfairly (the actual median age of residents is 45) the East Sussex coastal resort of Eastbourne is known as…

The ‘dirty dozen’ who crossed Nigel Farage

12 March 2025 8:39 pm

Nigel Farage is a curate’s egg of a politician: good in parts. The good part, at least for a Brexiteer…

Is snobbery behind Rupert Lowe’s row with Nigel Farage?

11 March 2025 5:00 pm

One aspect of the furious row that has split Reform UK which has yet to receive the attention it deserves is…