What on earth was I doing at the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ demonstration in Oxford’s High Street yesterday? I have received a lot of enjoyable but (as we shall see) undeserved praise for allegedly not ...

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 ...

At the very height of the Blair regime, the story was told of the New Labour MP who went to get his hair cut. He was wearing headphones, which the barber gently removed before proceeding. As the ...

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail On Sunday column Please permit me not to care about ‘Jihadi John’, whose participation in a series of gruesome videos has made him a useful frontman for his murderous ...

Review of ‘Beyond the Wall’: East Germany 1949-1990’ by Katja Hoyer. Allen Lane £25 East Germany was a filthy, malevolent little state created and run by wicked men and women in the service of the ...

Whatever happened to the old Policeman’s ABC (equally useful to journalists and politicians, in my view) – ‘Assume Nothing. Believe Nobody. Check Everything’? It seems to have been abandoned by her ...

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 ...

The Real Time Lord was Kaiser Wilhelm II, who fell for the claims of clock-fiddling charlatans ...

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

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.