PETER HITCHENS: Now even this North Korean warns we’re being brainwashed! 

The most bitterly funny story of the week is that a defector from North Korea thinks that even her homeland is ‘not as nuts’ as the indoctrination now forced on Western students. Yeonmi Park fled from the Hermit Kingdom when she was just 13, and endured horrible things during her escape. Eventually, she reached South Korea. … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: How long before common sense is actually illegal? 

Common sense has now been defeated in this country. There is really nowhere to turn if you still believe in it.  For years, many have assumed that a reasonable, conservative, Christian view of life was still upheld in several important places. But they have been wrong. The Long March of the Left through the institutions … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: This green revolution will turn Britain into a Third World country 

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 so many things that it is now impossible to discuss without being driven into the wilderness. Dissent on these subjects – you know what they are, though there will … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: This green revolution will turn Britain into a Third World country 

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 so many things that it is now impossible to discuss without being driven into the wilderness. Dissent on these subjects – you know what they are, though there will … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: Falklands hero Lord West is ‘insulted’ by the Foreign Office

Britain’s most senior naval officer last night complained that the British Government had insulted him in a row over intelligence and security. Admiral Lord West of Spithead, 72, a decorated Falklands veteran, former First Sea Lord and a Security Minister under Gordon Brown, was denounced on the record by the Foreign Office for engaging in … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: Falklands hero Lord West is ‘insulted’ by the Foreign Office

Britain’s most senior naval officer last night complained that the British Government had insulted him in a row over intelligence and security. Admiral Lord West of Spithead, 72, a decorated Falklands veteran, former First Sea Lord and a Security Minister under Gordon Brown, was denounced on the record by the Foreign Office for engaging in … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: New Labour’s secret IRA fan? He is not as rare as you’d think… 

A prominent New Labour journalist, Roy Greenslade, has finally admitted he is a lifelong supporter of IRA violence. You should care, even though you may think Mr Greenslade is obscure and unimportant. For it is yet another of those lightning-flashes which reveal something I have been trying to tell you for years and which you … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: New Labour’s secret IRA fan? He is not as rare as you’d think… 

A prominent New Labour journalist, Roy Greenslade, has finally admitted he is a lifelong supporter of IRA violence. You should care, even though you may think Mr Greenslade is obscure and unimportant. For it is yet another of those lightning-flashes which reveal something I have been trying to tell you for years and which you … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: Has Sir Keir Starmer’s view on the monarchy really changed?

The truth about the Labour Party and its ferociously radical leader Sir Keir Starmer is so obvious that nobody sees it. This is why the recent revelation that the Blair creature himself was once a Trotskyist came and went without any response at all. Nobody in the media wants to believe it, so they simply … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: Merry? No, this year we need an Angry Christmas!

Some of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under my bed in a Bucharest hotel, as tracer bullets whizzed by my window, and the snowy city echoed to the sound of crazy gunfire. Christmas Day wasn’t much better and when … Read more