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 ...

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 ...

Not Much Time Left to Save Julian Assange From Extradition - So Please Act ...

NB the below is a revised and updated (and occasionally annotated) republication of an article first published in 2013, which itself republishes one written in 2001. Needless to say that if I were ...

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail On Sunday column The truth about the Labour Party and its ferociously radical leader Sir Keir Starmer is so obvious that nobody sees it. This is why the recent revelation ...

The Government’s dedicated efforts to destroy our economy and an entire way of life have moved up a step. High streets had just begun to stir feebly back into life after months of enforced shutdown.

Some cold, hard facts they don’t tell you about Ukraine Here are some facts about the Ukraine crisis you may not be aware of. I have listed them to try to cool down the hot temper of so much of the ...

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, French-speaking Quebec finally breaks away from ...

We have been rubbing Russia up the wrong way for nearly 25 years. It is hard to see why. Moscow could have been our friend if we had wanted that. We rightly viewed the old Soviet Union as a global ...

Who decided to send British troops to Ukraine? What are they doing there? What would happen were they to be killed by Russian forces, or captured by them? And what was a British surveillance plane, ...

What happened to Marxism? My explanation in the Spectator of how 1960s revolution took over the world ...

What on earth was I doing at the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ demonstration in Oxford’s High Street yesterday? I have received a lot of enjoyable but (as we shall see) undeserved praise for allegedly not ...