Year: 2025

What would you like the priorities of His Majesty’s government to be? I have quite a long list. Sorting out the economy would certainly be up there, as would closing the border.

The ‘diversity is our strength’ lobby is wrong. Jihadists want all of us to die.

Ever since President Trump decided to clean up Washington, DC, crime in the city has gone down in drastic numbers.

Australia has long tolerated the proponents of such mayhem and silenced those who raise the alarm.

Well, New York — we’re going to be in for quite a ride. But then, I suppose many voters knew that when they voted in Zohran Mamdani as mayor last month.

A few years ago the podcaster Lex Fridman published a list of books that he was hoping to read in the year ahead. It included works by George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hermann Hesse and others. If he had published this in the world of print media he might have got back some encouraging noises.

There have always been a lot of jokes about the European military.

For perhaps the first time in my life I have experienced ‘fomo’ – fear of missing out. It is strange to feel this teenage sentiment now I am safely in my forties, and even odder that it should occur in relation to a party political conference in Liverpool.

Too many conservatives for too long felt the crucial battles were about economics. The NCF founder helped to correct that error.

Sir Tom Stoppard, the British playwright, died at his home in Dorset yesterday aged 88. In 2019, he gave a rare interview to Douglas Murray.

You have to be careful with a country. You cannot just leave borders open, or allow in large numbers of people with totally different value systems from your own.

Readers tend not to approve of rows between columnists, but I must take issue with something Lloyd Evans wrote in ‘No life’ last week. Our theatre critic claimed that his companionship ‘is very low calibre’, that he ‘can’t match anyone in conversation’ and that he ‘can barely recall making a witty or worthwhile comment’…