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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Stephen Fry - A Stupid Person's idea of What an Intelligent Person is Like ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

NATO is like Tinkerbell. If People Don't Believe in It, it will Die. Do not Over-rate its Power to Keep the Peace.

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 ...

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' ...

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