Nigel Jones

Why does Labour loathe ordinary people?

9 February 2025 9:42 pm

The jaw-dropping contempt dripping from the reply suggested by Labour’s sacked health minister Andrew Gwynne to a 72-year-old lady in…

Germany’s immigration election is heating up

4 February 2025 6:07 pm

These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought federal…

Should the West be worried about DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’?

2 February 2025 11:20 pm

My late mother proudly possessed a curious object: a tea cosy decorated with the image of a Sputnik. In 1957,…

Starmer has much to learn from Trump’s Colombia migrant victory

27 January 2025 11:36 pm

During Sir Keir Starmer’s first phone call with Donald Trump since the President’s inauguration, the two leaders discussed the ceasefire…

How Unity Mitford seduced Hitler

19 January 2025 4:30 pm

The Daily Mail has got a world exclusive on its hands. In great excitement it is publishing the secret diary…

Will the AfD’s deportation pledge win over German voters?

14 January 2025 10:23 pm

Next month’s German federal election on 23 February revolves around the disputed meaning of a single toxic word: ‘remigration’. Until…

Could Farage’s autocratic streak wreck Reform?

12 January 2025 11:01 pm

Ten Reform party councillors in Derbyshire have resigned in protest at Nigel Farage’s ‘autocratic’ control of the rising party and…

Elon Musk’s AfD article has rocked German politics

29 December 2024 8:47 pm

Fresh from explosively disrupting the politics of the US and Britain, Elon Musk has now turned his attention to Germany.…

Have Syria’s rebels really reformed?

13 December 2024 2:12 am

There were two scenes from Syria last night screened by the BBC and Channel 4 News that should give the…

Will Syria’s new rulers show mercy?

8 December 2024 9:21 am

The late Henry Kissinger said of the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s that it was a shame that both sides…

John Prescott was the embodiment of old Labour

21 November 2024 8:26 pm

The death of Labour’s former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott at the age of 86 also marks the passing of…

Austria’s far right is shut out of power, again

24 October 2024 9:52 pm

Austria’s mainstream politicians are combining to ensure that the winners of last month’s general elections, the far right Freedom party…

The fatal allure of Hitler’s favourite mountain

15 October 2024 12:24 am

‘The hills are alive,’ warbled Julie Andrews as she strode through a verdant Alpine mountain meadow, ‘with the sound of…

Starmer’s first 100 days could not have gone worse

11 October 2024 4:00 pm

Labour marks 100 days in power tomorrow, but there is precious little for Keir Starmer to celebrate. It is a…

Was Abraham Lincoln gay?

7 October 2024 10:17 pm

Given the idolatry with which Americans worship the man widely seen as their greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, and the obsessive…

Why the hard-right triumphed in Austria

30 September 2024 5:19 pm

The general elections in Austria have delivered a sensational result, with the hard right, pro-Putin Freedom party (FPO) coming out…

Why should we listen to John Major?

18 September 2024 4:44 pm

Sir John Major has been sounding off. Again. The former Tory prime minister criticised his party’s Rwanda asylum plan as…

Is Austria’s far-right Freedom Party heading for victory?

16 September 2024 3:30 pm

Amidst all the focus on the triumph of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Thuringia’s local state elections earlier this month,…

How long will Germany’s anti-AfD ‘firewall’ last?

2 September 2024 7:08 pm

Berlin awoke this morning in a state of shock. Although opinion polls had predicted that the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)…

Britain has a long history of authoritarianism

24 August 2024 4:00 pm

If Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is seriously intending to crack down on ‘hateful and harmful opinions’ – as she has promised to…

Did the Prime Minister have an affair with a woman half his age?

18 August 2024 4:00 pm

As a connoisseur of British political scandals I have long puzzled over one of the most intriguing of all such…

How could Hitler have had so many willing henchmen?

17 August 2024 9:00 am

Richard J. Evans tackles one of the Third Reich’s great mysteries. Why did so many apparently ‘normal’ Germans end up as perpetrators of mass atrocities?

The trouble with ‘spy swaps’

3 August 2024 1:55 am

Yesterday’s exchange of prisoners at Ankara airport in Turkey will have been personally ordered by President Putin. He is a…

Why the Bolivia coup failed

27 June 2024 10:27 pm

Latin America has long been the traditional home of the military coup – or ‘golpe’ in Spanish – so the…

Labour purges are nothing new

30 May 2024 10:55 pm

Sir Keir Starmer’s determination to prove to voters that Labour has changed, by purging the party’s far left, may look…