Is Le Pen really ‘far-right’?
What is ‘far-right’? With the progress of Marine Le Pen to France’s presidential run-off, the term has been liberally used…
In defence of Ken
We never loved each other, Ken Livingstone and I. We first clashed in public more than a decade ago, and…
Memory games
Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…
Memory games
Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…
Memory games
Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…
Abandoned to their fate
Another day in northern Nigeria, another Christian village reeling from an attack by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen who used to…
Abandoned to their fate
Another day in northern Nigeria, another Christian village reeling from an attack by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen who used to…
Abandoned to their fate
Another day in northern Nigeria, another Christian village reeling from an attack by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen who used to…
Dutch courage
It looks like the people might do it again. After the British electorate misled themselves so badly and American voters…
The empathy trap
Being against empathy sounds like being against flowers or sparrows. Surely empathy is a good thing? Isn’t one of the…
The empathy trap
Being against empathy sounds like being against flowers or sparrows. Surely empathy is a good thing? Isn’t one of the…
It’s time to consider the real Trump
For 18 months, Donald Trump was amazingly useful to British politicians. Whatever their party, he provided them with the most…
It’s time to consider the real Trump
For 18 months, Donald Trump was amazingly useful to British politicians. Whatever their party, he provided them with the most…
Diary
I have never met Donald Trump, but I knew his parents. A fact that makes me feel about 100 years…
Diary
I have never met Donald Trump, but I knew his parents. A fact that makes me feel about 100 years…
Lights, camera, politics
At the end of Sunday night’s US presidential debate, the moderators snuck in a final question from a slightly shell…
Europe’s summer of terror
How is your Merkelsommer going? For now, Britain seems to be missing the worst. True, a couple of men of…
A trick of the light
There is a moment at the start of most authors’ careers when it is hard to get anything published, and…
How Recep Erdogan became the most powerful man in Europe
President Erdogan has the EU’s leaders exactly where he wants them
Send us your entries for our ‘President Erdogan Insulting Poetry Competition’
Pen a foul verse in honour of the Turkish leader and be in the running for a £1,000 poetry prize!
The EU is on a suicide mission. Do we want to be a part of it?
It’s bad enough here, but Europe’s migrant folly is suicidal
Did my taunt push the new ‘Jihadi John’ to join Isis?
Did my taunt drive Abu Rumaysah to become the new ‘Jihadi John’?
Conservative youth politics is noxious, but pitiful
Why are so many Conservative activists so noxious?
France’s civil war — and the struggle facing Europe
...and the struggle facing Europe
Rex Whistler: ‘a desolate sense of loneliness amidst so much fun’
When Hugh and Mirabel Cecil’s book In Search of Rex Whistler was published in 2012, the late Brian Sewell reviewed…
