In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands..

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life..

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices..

This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly ac….

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle..

Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Com….

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad..

The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better..

Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of ou….