Not Much Time Left to Save Julian Assange From Extradition - So Please Act ...

It is just 50 years since I graduated from what was then the shiny new University of York. I and a few hundred others had spent three years on a wooded campus entirely divorced from normal life. We ...

How much longer can we rely on the 999 system for emergency calls? Is it in fact so overloaded that it is nowadays very nearly fictional? Last Sunday much of the emergency phone service broke down, ...

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column Whatever do they teach them in these schools? How do we find out? How can we change it if we do not like it? In the past few years it has become clear ...

To me, this event seemed more like a continuation of the Queen’s lying-in-state and funeral, than like the start of a new period in our lives. I kept thinking, especially when I glimpsed the very ...

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, ...

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 ...

THIS would make a good TV thriller: a few years in the future, with the world in economic turmoil and the whole planet in a tense, uncertain mess, French-speaking Quebec finally breaks away from ...

Why are British patriots so rude and dismissive about France? It has been fascinating to watch the sour, grudging reaction to one of the few sensible things done by any British government – the ...

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column WHAT a grim political choice this country now faces. On one side, here is the Red-Green fanatic Sir Keir Starmer, and his frightening and despotic claim ...

What is Britain’s interest in Ukraine? Why are we shovelling weapons and equipment into that country, despite the fact that our national budget is stretched to bursting and our own armed forces have ...

PETER HITCHENS: A long war in Ukraine will bring nothing but death, poverty and ruin. It's time for peace ...