When will Nigel Farage get off the fence?
Nigel Farage’s indecision continues. Despite being hyped in advance as a major unveiling of the rebel party’s programme, Reform UK’s…
Why is Sunak snubbing the Greeks?
Whatever position people take on the long-running dispute over the ownership of the Elgin marbles, there can be little doubt…
Of course Richard III killed the Princes in the Tower
When archaeologists digging beneath a Leicester car park in 2012 uncovered the battered skeleton of King Richard III, it made…
Nigel Farage’s ‘I’m A Celebrity’ appearance could come back to haunt him
After days of speculation, Nigel Farage has finally confirmed that he has accepted ITV’s invitation to go into the jungle…
Looking on the bright side
The Rochdale lass who sang her way from music hall to the silver screen encouraged a spirit of resilience and community in the interwar years, says Simon Heffer
Germany’s Ukraine tank blunder is embarrassing for Berlin
Ukraine is reported to have rejected a consignment of Germany’s Leopard 1 tanks – on the grounds that they are…
Biden and Trump are too old for office
Like the little boy who pointed out that the emperor was naked, veteran US politician Mitt Romney has just voiced…
Rishi Sunak’s crime crackdown is too little, too late
Conservative parties everywhere have traditionally been identified with maintaining law and order and cracking down on crime. As part of…
Is Putin outsourcing his espionage to Bulgaria?
Bulgaria is a country that doesn’t often feature on Britain’s radar – beyond being a location for cheap package holidays and…
Why can’t the AfD work out where it stands on Europe?
Members of Germany’s AfD (Alternative fur Deutschland) party gathered in the eastern city of Magdeburg this weekend. The party’s aim…
The shadow of the Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler still haunts Germany
Seventy-nine years ago today, 20 July 1944, Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, a much-wounded young Wehrmacht officer, packed a briefcase…
Dutch government collapses following migration row
The growing continent-wide crisis caused by mass immigration into Europe has claimed another country with the collapse of the Dutch…
John Major has learned nothing over Brexit
Rishi Sunak’s government is sometimes compared to that of John Major, the man who succeeded Margaret Thatcher in 1990, went…
In seven years, Lenin changed the course of history
Between his return from exile and his death, Lenin launched – and perverted – the revolution that shapes world politics today
Biden is right: China’s Xi is a ‘dictator’
Just as a stopped clock shows the correct time twice a day, so president Joe Biden, amidst the plethora of…
Italian politics will be duller without Silvio Berlusconi
There’s an irony in the timing of Silvio Berlusconi’s death at the age of 86, coming on the same weekend…
Have we betrayed the D-Day generation?
Today is the 79th anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 1944, when Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy to…
Sixty years on: How the Profumo affair ended the age of deference
These days our sex scandals seem like another symbol of Britain’s national decline. They are diminished, petty and tawdry, certainly compared…
Could Russia try to assassinate British officials?
You only have to hear the words of Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian President and Vladimir Putin’s long term chief sidekick,…
Europe’s rightward drift and the myth of backwards Britain
It is an idée fixe among British Europhiles that continental Europe is a progressive place firmly wedded to left-wing parties…
What’s eating John Major?
Eighty-year old Sir John Major does not appear to be enjoying a peaceful retirement. Judging by his frequent tetchy interventions…
King Charles must learn from Spain’s Juan Carlos’s mistakes
As he basks in the warm glow of respect, and even affection, surrounding his coronation this weekend, King Charles should…
Is Joe Biden really fit to run in 2024?
Kim yo-Jong, the powerful and influential sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, has launched a savage personal attack on…
Britain’s bloody history in Sudan
A 72 hour truce between rival military factions has been brokered in Sudan’s civil war by US Secretary of State…
Russia’s long history of female assassins
The news that a young woman anti-war activist, Darya Trepova, is suspect number one in the bombing assassination of Russian…
