Francis Harris
Francis Harris was the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Prague, Central Europe, at the United Nations and in Washington. He was the paper’s Deputy Foreign Editor from 2000-2005 and is now an editor and freelance writer
What would Václav Havel have made of gender wars?
The former Czech president and playwright would have invited JK Rowling over for a beer
WHO do they think they are?
Politicians should be more sceptical about ideology packaged as “public health”
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
The Conservatives have been too soggy, not too harsh
Their voters expected them to cut taxes and immigration — they did the opposite
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
Trump the peacemaker?
Donald Trump’s survival should inspire him to seek an end to violence
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
The dark future of free media in Europe
A French news channel has been fined for airing unchallenged negative views about migration and climate change
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment