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 ...

I agree totally with Peter Hitchens piece in the MOS. I think it is time the way in which governments govern is changed. They are supposed to represent us, not RULE us, and if you happen to be a ...

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 ...

The price of gold, that great warning barometer of economic storms to come, is climbing almost daily. And what looks increasingly like a badly bungled exit from the EU will only add to our perils ...

This is Peter Hitchens’ Mail on Sunday column In the name of Covid, the State has already thrust itself into every corner of our existence. It has come between husbands and wives at the ends of their ...

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.

This is Peter Hitchens’s Mail on Sunday column We’ll be sorry when the Monarchy is gone, which it will pretty soon be if we all go on behaving like this. If you want a Monarchy, you need grown-ups, ...

Britain's Vast Unpaid Debt to the USAI’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 ...

This is Peter Hitchens’ Mail on Sunday column 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, ...

Britain’s most senior naval officer last night complained that the British government had insulted him in a row over intelligence and security. Admiral Lord West of Spithead, 72, a decorated Falklands ...

This is Peter Hitchens’s Mail on Sunday column The sight of police closing down a church service is one of the worst moments of this national panic. I am more and more sure that this country is ...

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column So what has happened to the great Ukrainian offensive, which we were led to believe would dislodge Vladimir Putin’s invading armies? I suppose a surprise ...