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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
