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On Sunday morning a woman rushed out of a side road in a quiet Oxford suburb, violently knocked me off my bicycle and mangled the machine I was riding. Quite understandable, some of you may think.
The price of gold, that great warning barometer of economic storms to come, is climbing almost daily. And what looks increasingly like a badly bungled exit from the EU will only add to our perils ...
This is Peter Hitchens’ Mail on Sunday column In the name of Covid, the State has already thrust itself into every corner of our existence. It has come between husbands and wives at the ends of their ...
This is Peter Hitchens’s Mail on Sunday column The collapse of the once-free West into a conformist wasteland is grim enough by itself, for anyone who believes in free thought and assembly. There are ...
This is Peter Hitchens’s Mail on Sunday column In the long-ago summer of 2010, I found myself in the beautiful harbour of Sevastopol, surveying the rival fleets of Russia and Ukraine as they rode at ...
I agree totally with Peter Hitchens piece in the MOS. I think it is time the way in which governments govern is changed. They are supposed to represent us, not RULE us, and if you happen to be a ...
My review of Serhii Plokhy's new book on Ukraine, ‘The Russo-Ukrainian War’ in today's Mail on Sunday Even the title of this book is wrong. It describes a war between Russia and America, on the soil ...
It is curious what stirs people’s emotions. I would have expected my article on smacking to have attracted the most attention when my column was published yesterday. There were a few remarkably stupid ...
@Joshua Wooderson In regard to dangerous cars. Well maybe in the case of the modern Trent for driverless car . There weight being of no consequence. Like guns ,cars do not kill .bad drivers do ,and ...
The Mail on Sunday today reveals that plans are under way for an altered Coronation service. I'm taking this chance to republish an article which originally appeared in the (alas defunct) 'Standpoint' ...
This is Peter Hitchens’s Mail on Sunday column The sight of police closing down a church service is one of the worst moments of this national panic. I am more and more sure that this country is ...
Here is a recording of the astonishing interview of Lord Sumption, a former member of the Supreme Court and last year's Reith Lecturer, on BBC Radio 4's World at One today , Monday 30th March 2020. It ...