Last year, Jimmy Carr told a joke about the Holocaust that is now upsetting some people who feel, apparently, that offended virtue is a...

Sir Robert Peel, father of British policing and architect of the Conservative Party, has two compelling reasons to be spinning in his...

Character is more important than brains. The first time I heard this assertion, it was uttered with exaggerated disdain by an Oxford...

An interesting and dispiriting feature of the political crisis that now approaches its second birthday has been the remarkable stupidity...

The opening month of the year is a good time to consider the god of doors, after whom it was named. Janus presides over beginnings and...

Young people, you will be shocked to hear, have been rebelling against authority, for what may be the first time in recorded history. The...

Few but the most fanatical Covid enthusiasts now bother to pretend that there is any significant medical benefit to be derived from...

The state of the nation as 2021 draws to a close depends very much on whether you happen to be considering history or geography. In...

Angela Rayner walked into a bar at the Labour Party Conference and confidently announced: “All Tories are scum.” A group in the corner...

There was another shooting yesterday inside my local shopping mall, Multiplaza, on the Via Israel in Panama City. A friend who was...

Michael Gove has said that it is a selfish act to refuse the vaccine against coronavirus, a statement which will presumably have a...

I am writing these words on a slow and very comfortable train from Luxor to Alexandria. The journey is supposed to take a little over...

At long last, government propaganda may have overreached itself. The Great British public has shown itself ready to believe six...

The most atrocious bores, recounting stories of their children, their holidays, or their dreams, present you with a precious and...

In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis writes from the perspective of an experienced devil addressing his young nephew on the most...

The range of responses to the April protests against lockdown from what we might now call the media-political complex has been...

The new fundamentalism that has made an idol of a virus is based on two great lies. The first is that those who worship the blessed virus...

How do you know you’re not mad? If not mad, exactly, how do you know that you are not being deeply unreasonable, stupid, or resistant to...

More than a thousand years ago, a Chinese Emperor of the Southern Tang, the state that later gave its name to a popular brand of barbecue...

Things, the Labour Party theme song assured the public in 1997, can only get better. This optimism is misplaced. The elastic of...