Max Hastings

Diary

1 April 2017 9:00 am

Last week’s events in London raised a recurrent dilemma for journalists, including me. It is a huge story when a…

Red with the people’s blood

10 December 2016 9:00 am

Few 20th-century historians doubted that the 1917 Russian revolution was one of the most influential events of their time, indeed…

Diary

1 October 2016 9:00 am

Monday night’s US presidential debate should convince a majority of American voters that Hillary Clinton is their only credible choice…

Diary

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

Monday night’s US presidential debate should convince a majority of American voters that Hillary Clinton is their only credible choice…

An age of broken promises

11 June 2016 8:00 am

An intelligent middle-aged, middle-class woman told me the other day that she plans to vote Leave on 23 June because she…

Diary

10 September 2015 1:00 pm

During our annual odyssey around the Scottish Highlands, I read Tears of the Rajas, Ferdinand Mount’s eloquent indictment of imperial…