Peter Hitchens
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Alas, a new podcast just doesn’t work
Why does the podcast exist? Vine and Hitchens never explain its purpose
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority
The roots of school rage
The closure of grammar schools entrenched privilege
Should young people emigrate?
Peter Hitchens is wrong about the prospects for right-wingers
De-educating Britain
Peter Hitchens’ new book details how the destruction of grammar schools has betrayed children from modest backgrounds
February: Letters to the Editor
Peter Hitchens resents being called a “High Tory”
November: Letters to the Editor
The Charity Commission needs to consider its own reputation
Britain’s contrarian Cassandra
Peter Hitchens is the courageous Cassandra of our age. But is his unrelenting pessimism undermining his conservative message?
The Lockdown Sceptics
The ‘liberators’ fighting back against the ‘ever-lockers’
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub