As this is my first live post for six years, it is probably a good idea to keep it modest and understated - build up slowly to the...

Where do you start with a leviathan like Thatcher? It is a truism that they don’t make them like they used to, that policemen are getting...

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good if of't interred with their bones; So let it be...

The good doctor has been quiet – conspicuously so, some might say – on matters European but with time rapidly running out necessity...

We Brits have never really understood Europe. ‘Tis a strange place, somewhere to go to get sunburned, intoxicated, culturally overawed or...

‘No man is an island,’ wrote John Donne in 1624, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. Donne seemed to...

Under the circumstances, I really did feel that I should say something about the government’s report card but, to be honest, I found it...