Only Tories can tell the truth about debt
The trajectory of the British state's debt is unsustainable. Already we're spending more on servicing debt than on defence. But “hold course”, says our centre-...
This LBJ biography helps explain deep US fear of vote rigging
Back in 1960, there was blatant electoral fraud organised by Texan power-brokers linked to Johnson.
Labour governments all end in the same mess
Parliamentary party is in constant thrall to a national movement that mistrusts capitalism and has a liking for class war.
It’s time to start treating Israel like apartheid-era South Africa
The Israeli government has shown that international condemnation of the horrors unfolding in Gaza does not carry any weight,...
How Labour governments always end
Couldn't we just skip to the end? I'm old enough to have seen this so often: must I sit through each dreary succeeding scene again?
Why you should never trust a travel writer
After one of Jeffrey Archer's minor tangles with the absolute truth, his friend the late Barry Humphries remarked: 'We all invent ourselves...
Matthew Parris: my life in politics (I was right about Boris)
One hundred party conferences, nine general elections and nine prime ministers — Times columnist Matthew Parris has spent 36 years writing about...
Stonewall should stay out of trans rights war
The organisation I helped found has lost its way since winning gay equality and is mired in an issue that isn't its concern.
Unbelievers in search of God?
Perhaps, we can also say that the man, and strikingly it is mostly men who put time and effort into disproving that God exists or that Jesus...
Kemi Badenoch must seize one-nation opportunity
The more devout among my readers will be familiar with the gospel story of the Gadarene swine. To heal a troubled spirit, a legion of demons...
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A journalist and former politician who has commented on the issues of tax evasion relating to Jersey's financial practices.