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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My conversation with Kevin O'Sullivan of Talk Radio on Monday 28th - The IRA, forgiveness ..and the Panicdemic ...

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 ...

What happened to Marxism? My explanation in the Spectator of how 1960s revolution took over the world ...

Some thoughts about the Princess Diana affair« An interview with 'Conservative Woman' about Princess Diana | Main | James Whale gives me a chance to speak. Talk Radio's sensible redress for last week' ...

Calling Things by their Proper Names"And still the Left moan that they have been beaten, sidelined and betrayed. Are they too stupid to see that they have won, or too clever to admit that they are ...

Some cold, hard facts they don’t tell you about Ukraine Here are some facts about the Ukraine crisis you may not be aware of. I have listed them to try to cool down the hot temper of so much of the ...

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column Wasn’t Sir Keir Starmer taught to respect women during his upbringing? The Labour leader now says he wants schools to ‘bring about cultural change’ and ...

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, ...