Diptels are official secrets for a good reason. They allow our ambassadors to write freely, openly and without constraint to our government,...

Here are three suggestions for keeping our tankers safe from Iranian aggression when passing through the Strait of Hormuz; 1. Convoys Ass...

Last night's shocking Panorama exposed the depth of anti-semitism in the Labour party, a disease that goes to the very top. A shameful ...

House of Commons library have just issued guidance on possible general election dates BEFORE Brexit day - Thursday 19th September or Thu...

I've long described myself in political shorthand as 'democrat and localist'. With Brexit for the past three years, I haven'...

I may write to Saint Greta this morning, suggesting a new national memorial to all those who fall in the cause of the planet. Those killed b...

There's an intelligent post by Paul Goodman on Conservative Home. I concur wholly that Darroch has done nothing wrong, and that he was ...

Everyone agrees. When May goes, arch-Remainer Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill cannot stay at Number Ten. Suggestions for his future include s...

Hunt supporters - Hammond, Gaulk, Amber Rudd - really should have told Conservative voters all they needed to know. However, the cherry on t...

For twenty years I enjoyed rough shooting. I claim in my defence that everything I shot went into my own pot - it was all eaten - and I neve...

Back in September last year, when the High Court delivered an excoriating verdict on the Electoral Commission's competency, I wrote Th...

After yesterday's round of corrupt appointments to the EU's top crony jobs - including the convicted criminal fraudster Christine La...

Having put their man Martin Selmayr into one of the EU's top posts, the Germans thought there would be little opposition to giving anoth...

Having written below of the very same reality that Nigel Farage presented to his mass meeting yesterday, I can only claim that some things a...

The decisive battles of the Brexit war will be fought this year. If we're to win, we need everyone on board, and everyone pulling their ...

President Putin hit a nerve with his deliberately provocative pronouncement at the G20 that liberal democracy was dead . He is wrong. Democr...

Lord Sumption ended this year's Reith lectures - the finest in my memory - with the conclusion that, in the struggle between law and d...

Young people want to live in cities, and young doctors are no different. This is true not only for the UK but for much of Europe - and in Eu...

"No, I'm not wearing that, sorry. It's ... colourful. And swirly. The pattern is irregular. I always wear a white shirt" ...

As the sofa wine stain story broke yesterday, as early as dawn it became clear that the perpetrators - the Guardian newspaper and  hostile l...