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So what has happened to the great Ukrainian offensive, which we were led to believe would dislodge Vladimir Putin’s invading armies? I suppose a surprise is still possible, but it looks as if it has ...
It could happen any day now. After yet another brief, unsuccessful court hearing, a column of vans and police cars roars out of Belmarsh prison in London and hurries to Heathrow, where a manacled, ...
The film about the nuclear scientist Robert Oppenheimer is not just bad, noisy, hard to follow and far too long. It actually gets in the way of understanding one of the great events of our times. I ...
My review of Serhii Plokhy's new book on Ukraine, ‘The Russo-Ukrainian War’ in today's Mail on Sunday ...
Wasn’t Sir Keir Starmer taught to respect women during his upbringing? The Labour leader now says he wants schools to ‘bring about cultural change’ and put a stop to the loutish mistreatment of girls ...
Each evening, as night falls on Baghdad, the Middle Ages return. This great modern city has been stripped of almost all the essentials of civilisation. By day it is not quite so obvious. But when the ...
You may think I am pretty bad now, but you should have seen me when I was 15. I said, did and thought terrible things, which are now hateful to me. The memory of them is pretty much unbearable. I can ...
This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column: How dare the Labour Party try to gain political advantage by complaining about the horrible explosion of crime in this country? Last week they produced ...
At the very height of the Blair regime, the story was told of the New Labour MP who went to get his hair cut. He was wearing headphones, which the barber gently removed before proceeding. As the ...
Here are some facts about the Ukraine crisis you may not be aware of. I have listed them to try to cool down the hot temper of so much of the debate about this issue, which threatens to widen and ...
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 anchor in the lovely Crimean sunshine. One great ...
So they finally got their war. But what are they going to do now? This is the most avoidable, needless conflict in modern history. It was nurtured and hatched in the small minds of foolish men. There ...