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I had always been interested in politics but had not done anything practical until the rise of Nigel Farage’s Ukip. He was proving a thorn in the...
Sir Keir Starmer’s determination to prove to voters that Labour has changed, by purging the party’s far left, may look like cruel contemporary...
It’s always a sad day for journalists when a newspaper goes to the great printing room in the sky. But for all Londoners, the death of the...
Rishi Sunak’s snap summer election means that Nigel Farage faces a decisive moment. For months if not years, Farage has held back from taking a role...
My son and various well-meaning friends have been advising me to abandon writing history books and cash in on the trend for boarding school misery...
Somewhat unfairly, Slovakia is often overlooked and ignored as a quiet and peaceful backwater in the often turbulent turmoil of east European...
We haven’t heard much from Dominic Cummings since he walked out of No. 10 Downing Street in November 2020. Now the cerebral Vote Leave mastermind...
As George Orwell astutely observed, England is a nation of hobbyists – and their sometimes eccentric private pursuits are one of the reasons that...
Fifty years ago today, on 25 April 1974, Europe was stunned by an almost bloodless military coup that removed the continent’s most durable...
There’s bad news for coffee fans: the price of your favourite beverage – which has already rocketed in recent years – is about to soar. A...
For the third time in recent years a party created by Nigel Farage is threatening the Tory party’s fading hopes of re-election. But this time the...
The court appearance of the four men accused by Russia of carrying out the Moscow massacre of 137 innocent concert goers at the Crocus City Hall venue...
Anyone for whom a screening of the film The Great Escape is an annual Christmas tradition will know how strong a hold the myth of that escapade holds...
The members list of the men-only Garrick Club in London’s West End has remained a closely-guarded secret – until now. King Charles, Richard Moore,...
In Rome today a group of ancient history enthusiasts will drape themselves in togas and re-enact that most infamous act of political murder: the...
Portugal goes to the polls this weekend for parliamentary elections and it looks likely to become the latest European country in which a populist hard...
Two massive security scandals this weekend have given a shot in the arm to Putin’s war on Ukraine. Yet again they have exposed Chancellor Olaf...
Anyone with a smattering of knowledge of Britain’s troubled history in the Middle East will be unsurprised by Lord Cameron’s increasingly...
As witness the great ages achieved by King Charles’ mother, the Queen (96), and maternal grandmother, the Queen mother (101), the modern British...
It’s not often that an ex-spymaster is spied upon by his former colleagues. But just that has happened in Germany, where Hans-Georg Maassen, the...
George Orwell has a story that when Sir Walter Raleigh published the first volume of his projected history of the world while in prison, he witnessed...
We don’t hear much about Austrian politics in Britain, which is not perhaps surprising since the landlocked Central European republic of some nine...
One of the fascinating aspects of the Horizon Post Office scandal is the way that the sub-post masters and mistresses who were victims of the bungling...
Nigel Farage’s indecision continues. Despite being hyped in advance as a major unveiling of the rebel party’s programme, Reform UK’s press...