Here is a recording of the astonishing interview of Lord Sumption, a former member of the Supreme Court and last year's Reith Lecturer, on BBC Radio 4's World at One today , Monday 30th March 2020. It ...

The sight of police closing down a church service is one of the worst moments of this national panic. I am more and more sure that this country is suffering a revolution in which much that we used to ...

It is curious what stirs people’s emotions. I would have expected my article on smacking to have attracted the most attention when my column was published yesterday. There were a few remarkably stupid ...

There was once a famous Chinese executioner so skilful with his razor-edged sword that crowds would pay to watch him behead criminals. One day he came to a small provincial town where the authorities ...

The Government’s dedicated efforts to destroy our economy and an entire way of life have moved up a step. High streets had just begun to stir feebly back into life after months of enforced shutdown.

In 1975, the United Kingdom government distributed three pamphlets to voters in the weeks before the referendum on our continued membership of what was then the Common Market. I have reproduced them ...

How extraordinary that the Johnson Government, while in serious money trouble, chooses to spend billions on a vaccine against a disease which in many cases has no symptoms at all. Yet this peculiar ...

THIS would make a good TV thriller: a few years in the future, with the world in economic turmoil and the whole planet in a tense, uncertain mess, French-speaking Quebec finally breaks away from ...

On Sunday morning a woman rushed out of a side road in a quiet Oxford suburb, violently knocked me off my bicycle and mangled the machine I was riding. Quite understandable, some of you may think.

Who decided to send British troops to Ukraine? What are they doing there? What would happen were they to be killed by Russian forces, or captured by them? And what was a British surveillance plane, ...

WHAT a grim political choice this country now faces. On one side, here is the Red-Green fanatic Sir Keir Starmer, and his frightening and despotic claim to be ‘the political wing of the British people ...

Here are some facts about the Ukraine crisis you may not be aware of. I have listed them to try to cool down the hot temper of so much of the debate about this issue, which threatens to widen and ...