I’ll have a lot more to say about the Great War of 1914-18 on Monday, but amid the verbose sentiment and piety about that ghastly and disastrous episode, I’d like to introduce a cracked, yellow note ...

There is a growing lobby, presumably worked up over many lunches and dinners in the manner described in my ‘Cameron Delusion’, aimed at abolishing this country’s voting system and replacing it with a ...

I have just returned from the USA, where I attended – and took a small part in - the memorial event for my brother, Christopher. I was in an odd position. I was a Christian at an occasion that was ...

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, ...

My review of Serhii Plokhy's new book on Ukraine, ‘The Russo-Ukrainian War’ in today's Mail on Sunday ...

Each evening, as night falls on Baghdad, the Middle Ages return. This great modern city has been stripped of almost all the essentials of civilisation. By day it is not quite so obvious. But when 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.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13232163/PETER-HITCHENS-ANYBODY-call-time-crazy-Kaiser-Bills-clock-meddling-folly.html ...

The current wave of shoplifting is especially frightening. It is not some invented panic. And others close to me have witnessed it in recent days. Crucially, even the dimmest criminal has now realised ...

The real problem with Gary Lineker is that he knows as much about politics as I know about football. But, while you will never catch me giving my opinions on soccer, Mr Lineker thinks his TV and ...

I’m pleased to see that the historian Niall Ferguson is saying (here http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/30/britain-first-world-war-biggest-error-niall ...

It could happen any day now. After yet another brief, unsuccessful court hearing, a column of vans and police cars roars out of Belmarsh prison in London and hurries to Heathrow, where a manacled, ...