Nick Clegg’s pallor, Murdoch’s revenge, and Lord Strathclyde’s champagne
Has Nick Clegg seen a ghost? The pallor of the Lib Dem leader continues to excite comment in Westminster. At Monday’s half-time presentation by the coalition, he was looking as… Read more
Britain’s accidental EU exit
If Britain leaves the European Union, historians will say that 30 June 2012 was when the great exit began. That day, David Cameron was due to write an article for… Read more
America’s strategic stupidity
Every few months, America’s four-star admirals and generals gather at a military base not far from Washington to participate in what General Martin E. Dempsey, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman,… Read more
Stop the drugs war
‘They’re all bad, our politicians, all corrupt,’ said Maria, her cheery face dissolving into distaste. What about the new president, Peña Nieto? I ask. ‘That pretty boy? Ugh!’ It was… Read more
A hit man at 13
After a long wait in the visiting room of the maximum security wing of the ‘Gib Lewis Unit’, Rosalio Reta finally arrived for our interview. He was only five feet… Read more
Paying Osborne’s bills
In her early campaigning days as Conservative leader, Mrs Thatcher had the gift of being able to relate the national economy to the domestic finances of ordinary voters. The battle… Read more
Wedding hells
In the good old days of the gay liberation movement, in the 1970s and early 1980s, the excitement of challenging the orthodoxy attracted even the shy and apolitical to its… Read more
An almost perfect catastrophe
Lots of people have subsequently discovered this important imperial maxim: ‘Don’t invade Afghanistan.’ But the first western power to demonstrate the point of it was the British, in the late… Read more
Her fighting soul
The subtitle of Deirdre David’s life of Olivia Manning, ‘A Woman at War’, has a resonant double meaning. She was, as we are repeatedly informed, a unique example of a… Read more
How not to steal a million
‘You’re not going to believe this,’ crackled the voice over the Buckinghamshire police radio in the pre-dawn light of Thursday 8 August 1963. ‘They’ve stolen a train.’ Fifty years on,… Read more
Latest blogs
- Adam Afriyie ‘coup’: a false start for the stalking horse Isabel Hardman
- The view from Davos: Boris Johnson’s economic adviser on infrastructure Carole Stone
- The Unbearable Self-Pity of Britain’s Rich and Privileged Alex Massie
- Frank Keating, 1937-2013 Alex Massie
- The Americans accuse the French of being too ambitious in Mali as British involvement grows James Forsyth
- The EU must change Douglas Murray
- Why The Guardian has got it wrong – on cuts and on Boris. Fraser Nelson
