THE headline is not mine, but the words of David Butler, author of The Fall of Saigon, when reviewing Escape with Honor, the story...

IF the 21 miles across the Dover Strait seem wider than the Atlantic, try the sullen grey waters between the Humber and Heligoland. Then...

AS Kathy Gyngell wrote in The Conservative Woman yesterday, Nigel Farage should not let himself be trapped in the politics of defeatism. From the...

A GENERAL Election is not simply about Brexit, it's about government over five years. This applies just as much to the Brexit Party. There are...

YESTERDAY was the 953rd anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. I see no difference between 1066 and the German seizure of part of Denmark...

I AM beginning to suspect that many of our MPs are a bit slow. Why would the EU want to negotiate? The pantomime in...

WINDSOR Castle has been home for the Queen for many years. Long ago she let it be known that it was easier to entertain...

PARLIAMENT has been taken over by a Bercow-inspired coup. Jeremy Corbyn has found himself acting as coup leader and enjoys the role. He has...

OH dear, doesn’t Boris have someone streetwise as his media watchdog? Clearly not. Even the Telegraph enjoyed the spectacle of the Johnson ambush in...

ON Friday, TCW’s Caroline ffiske suggested a very good way for voters to sort out Brexit ourselves. I have been thinking that in this...

WE are concerned with simple politics here, not warfare, but many of the principles are the same. Thus while not for one second would...

THE Times on Saturday informed me that Dom Cummings wishes to curtail wasteful MoD projects.  Here we go again. Has the Tory Party as an institution...

WE hear and read a lot about Dom Cummings. If I were him, I'd lower my profile. Right now he's sending a message that...

THE principal lesson of the Brecon by-election result is that if Boris Johnson doesn’t do a deal with the Brexit Party, the Tories will...

MAY 1940: Catastrophe across the Channel. More than 350,000 British and French troops are rescued off the sands at Dunkirk from the tanks of...

DONALD Trump arrives today. He is showbusiness and he's already warming up the British crowd – Boris for Prime Minister, tell Angela Merkel to...