TUESDAYS night’s television debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn was a waste of time. It was not really a debate at...

YESTERDAY was the 101st anniversary of the end of the First World War. When it began in 1914, Western civilisation seemed unassailable, though its...

I FOUND Sir Anthony Seldon's book on Mr Blair unreadably dry, like chewing straw, but his new one on Mrs May sounded compelling, in...

I SAW why some Brexiteers will vote for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party when I read in the Daily Mail that Boris Johnson is not...

IT used to be the case that British general election campaigns had very little effect on the result. The first time that was not...

I GAVE up reading Roger Boyes many years ago. His banal analyses of Middle Eastern politics sounded like they were dictated by MI6 or...

I ALWAYS thought Boris could pull off a deal against all the odds, despite inheriting a terrible bargaining position from his grossly incompetent predecessor,...

JENAN Moussa, a reporter for Arabic Al Aan TV, says Turks invading Syrian territory have been welcomed by pro-Turkish Islamists. https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1183469412592050176 The Kurds, with no choice,...

SINCE September 11, 2001, world politics has resembled a cheap novel which has little regard for plausibility. That is why Jeremy Corbyn is leader...

IT IS clear now that there will be no deal between the UK and the EU that involves customs or other checks on the...

THIS is the era of narcissists: Mr Obama, Mr Trump, Mr Macron, Speaker Bercow and possibly (I have not decided yet) Rory Stewart. I am...

YESTERDAY morning Justin Webb on BBC Radio Four's Today asked Rory Stewart: 'You mention that you are proud of the diversity of the mayoral...

THE current session of the British Parliament, a corpse which the Supreme Court has resurrected, has been longer than any other in its history,...