One of the best ways to work out that somebody has not thought deeply about anti-Semitism is if they say…

I thought I had forgotten about Diane Abbott, but in fact there has been a Diane-sized hole in my life…

‘Democracy,’ said H.L. Mencken, ‘is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.’ As we approach 2024, America…

I was having tea with my neighbour in her second-floor flat when a man, a stranger, appeared in the room.…

A seized luxury campervan, a raid on a politician’s home and two arrests. The latest twists in Police Scotland’s investigation…

It was from the Northern Ireland conflict that I first learned how language – like everything else – can be…

For people who take politics seriously and very earnestly, such as myself, the present debacle within the Scottish National party…

In some quarters, American enterprise is alive and well. Established in 1929 to promote consumer protection, the conservative non-profit Consumers’…

On Easter Saturday, I wrote for the Times about the victimhood of Christ, describing this as a regrettable foundation for…

When Rishi Sunak became Tory leader, the party was 30 points behind Labour: that kind of deficit has historically been…

The journos weren’t very impressed with Nicola Sturgeon’s house. Never mind the plod staring like morons at her barbecue or…

I am actively contributing to the decline of the West and to the collapse of our civilisation. I realised this…

‘Well, they can’t cancel Picasso.’ That was my optimistic take some months ago when a friend in the art world…

Two years ago when the Tories won the Hartlepool by-election at the local elections, the political mood was summed up…

In June 1999, I described on this page jameitos, tiny, blind, albino crabs on the sea bottom in a cave…

It is with great sadness that I must report the departure of the world’s only female head of state who…

Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of an even more prominent fat man seems a big win for Donald Trump,…