It is not self-evidently ridiculous that Nigel Farage should be the next British ambassador to the United States. The wishes…

On a day when much fuss was being made about ‘false news’ on the net, it was amusing to study…

It is a great relief that there will be no inquiry into the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ in 1984. The weirdness…

World leaders are preoccupied nowadays with what is known as their ‘legacy’. In practice, this means being linked with moral-sounding…

Vote Leave was the most successful electoral campaign in British history. Against the opposition of all three political parties, it…

Given all the outrageous things that Donald Trump has done and said already, why has he got into so much…

 Birmingham Checking in to my hotel room on the 18th floor, for the Conservative party conference here, I opened the…

Mathias Döpfner, the extremely tall, extremely intelligent head of Axel Springer, is unusual in the generally conformist German business elite…

When I read that Martin Roth, the director of the V&A, was resigning from his job because of Brexit, I…

When you vote in Britain, there is a relaxed feeling in the polling stations. This is a long-established part of…

Those who want to revive grammar schools are accused of ‘bring backery’ — the unthinking idea that the past was…

The Daily Telegraph revealed on Tuesday that Michael Spencer, the chief executive of Icap, has been blocked for a peerage…

At the beginning of his war memoirs, Charles de Gaulle famously wrote, ‘All my life I have had a certain…