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“Democracy,” wrote the American journalist and wit HL Mencken, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get...

Day 9 of BoJo’s coup, and the wheels have really come off the Borismobile. His first three parliamentary votes as Prime Minister all went ...

Martin Niemöller, imprisoned by the Nazis Denmark, once a beacon of tolerance and inclusiveness, has banned the Muslim full-face veil....

It’s not often that the British Daily Mail makes me smile, but it did today. It was the headline that got me going: “WHO  WILL  SPEAK FOR...

It’s great to come across the odd good news story out there, in amongst so much that’s bad. Few are worse than the intensifying Russian in...

It’s good to see religious leaders standing up to denounce immorality – especially when for once it isn’t sex they’re talking about. It’s ...

If you want to smear a politician, there are many accusations you can make: espionage, perhaps, or corruption; if you want to get domestic,...

So yesterday David Cameron announced that, if we do him the great honour of re-electing him in 2015, there would be a referendum in 2017 on ...

‘The Guardian has handed a gift to terrorists,’ proclaimed the Daily Mail this week. The Mail gets the knife into the Guardian ...

If Christmas is a family time, we did it right this year. We saw my mother and my brother; we had our granddaughter with her parents in the ...

Benjamin Disraeli injected colour into the role of British Prime Minister, in every sense of the word. He liked to wear purple velvet and wo...