This is Peter Hitchens’ Mail on Sunday column In the name of Covid, the State has already thrust itself into every corner of our existence. It has come between husbands and wives at the ends of their ...

NB the below is a revised and updated (and occasionally annotated) republication of an article first published in 2013, which itself republishes one written in 2001. Needless to say that if I were ...

What on earth was I doing at the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ demonstration in Oxford’s High Street yesterday? I have received a lot of enjoyable but (as we shall see) undeserved praise for allegedly not ...

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.

Whatever happened to the old Policeman’s ABC (equally useful to journalists and politicians, in my view) – ‘Assume Nothing. Believe Nobody. Check Everything’? It seems to have been abandoned by her ...

Our Parliament is a Dead Parrot. Write now and ask your MPs what they are being paid for, since they are not doing their jobs ...

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 ...

At the very height of the Blair regime, the story was told of the New Labour MP who went to get his hair cut. He was wearing headphones, which the barber gently removed before proceeding. As the ...

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.

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 ...

I agree totally with Peter Hitchens piece in the MOS. I think it is time the way in which governments govern is changed. They are supposed to represent us, not RULE us, and if you happen to be a ...

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 ...