Patrick Mercer
Patrick Mercer is a former MP and British Army colonel
The paper tiger and the Russian bear
NATO’s naive and supine response will not drive Putin’s army from Ukraine and emboldens Moscow still further
Military history is set to repeat itself
In a recession-ridden Britain, another European war seemed unthinkable
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
