My review of Serhii Plokhy's new book on Ukraine, ‘The Russo-Ukrainian War’ in today's Mail on Sunday ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13232163/PETER-HITCHENS-ANYBODY-call-time-crazy-Kaiser-Bills-clock-meddling-folly.html ...

Each evening, as night falls on Baghdad, the Middle Ages return. This great modern city has been stripped of almost all the essentials of civilisation. By day it is not quite so obvious. But when the ...

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, ...

War makes people lose their marbles. As soon as the shooting starts, the thinking stops. This is understandable (if often unwise) if you are directly involved. But the rest of us should be more ...

Is Ukraine stuck? Wars can be very unpredictable – especially in their early weeks – but there are a lot of signs that Ukraine has run into political and military trouble. It is not that its forces ...

I say 'Thank God!' if what looked like Civil War in Russia really has been averted. I hate to think what would have happened to the endlessly oppressed, repeatedly robbed stoical, brave Russian people ...

WHAT a grim political choice this country now faces. On one side, here is the Red-Green fanatic Sir Keir Starmer, and his frightening and despotic claim to be ‘the political wing of the British people ...

There is still just time for our Government to do a good, brave deed, which will be recognised as such decades hence. There is still just time for prominent figures in politics and the media to place ...

When King Charles comes to be crowned I very much hope that he will promise, as his mother did in 1953, to ‘restore the things that are gone to decay’ and ‘maintain the things that are restored’. I ...

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At the very height of the Blair regime, the story was told of the New Labour MP who went to get his hair cut. He was wearing headphones, which the barber gently removed before proceeding. As the ...