I watched these two interviews on YouTube recently. They were facinating. In the first, a very youthful David Dimbleby was interviewing...

So the former President is rehabilitating himself as an advocate of pluralism and tolerance. I suppose that most people appear to be...

The seasoned expert in opinion polling, Peter Kellner, has some interesting data about the vicissitudes in public opinion in England on...

Two months ago, a dear friend asked me to write about my predictions concerning possible futures for the Republican Party. The result was...

Commentary on Shirley Williams in the past few days has often referred to her being the object of extremely unfair and hypocritical...

In the words of Julia Langdon's obituary in the 'Guardian', Shirley Williams 'exuded reasonableness'. This, together with her warmth,...

It is still possible to feel such relief at the (temporary) passing of Trump from the political scene that one overlooks the fact that...

Biden and Blinken have announced that the United States and Britain are leaving Afghanistan. Reason ? 'Mission accomplished', apparently....

Many questions have been asked, and rightly so, about the role in government of the Australian financier Lex Greensill. However, a rather...

As a reaction against the many crimes and hypocrisies of American foreign policy, a number of people on the far left (notably...

Barely two months in to his presidency, commentators (such as Jonathan Freedland in 'The Guardian' the other day) have already begun to...

It is notable that some pandemics (for example, those of bubonic plague from the 14th century onwards ; and those of cholera in the 19th...

The mayor of the metropolitan region of Manchester, Andy Burnham, has announced that public control of the bus services in the area will...

The Conservative Party has always proclaimed itself to be the party of the entrepreneur and the 'small businessperson', against the...

A year on, people are talking about the necessity of 'moving on', of 'getting back to normal', of the advantages of this period, from the...

Many commentators with far more expertise than I possess have picked many holes in the Sewell Report. I will not reiterate their...

Businesses are tearing their hair out ; people are losing their livelihoods ; the replacement of Erasmus by the Turing scheme deprives...

It has been reported that Alexander, in a speech to the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, has claimed that greed and...

It is notable that the government has started to insist on the greater public visibility of the Union flag at the moment when the...

Winston Churchill's fondness for cigars has often been remarked upon. Less often noticed is the fact that three British prime ministers...