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

How bizarre that the keystone of a supposedly conservative budget is a plan to help women abandon their children and go out to work. Anti-family socialists and dogmatic hard-line feminists - often the ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

It is just 50 years since I graduated from what was then the shiny new University of York. I and a few hundred others had spent three years on a wooded campus entirely divorced from normal life. We ...

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 ...

Why is Britain sending 14 tanks to Ukraine? When this odd and risky decision was announced on Monday by the Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, not one questioning voice was raised in the House of Commons ...

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 ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13192729/PETER-HITCHENS-doctored-royal-photo-trivial-epitomises-era-open-monstrous-deceit-Stalin-never-dream-of.html ...

...is about drugs, and why the search for a sinister Mr Big is futile. The drug trade is sustained and strengthened by millions of Mr and Ms Smalls, selfish western people who feed their money into an ...