Новости за 17.10.2019

I’ve nearly finished my latest screenplay, Drift. It’s a reimagining of a British imperial atrocity which took place in Natal…

Expect the unexpected has been the rule in British politics these last few years. But even so, few would have…

There are so many problems confronting our polity this week that it is almost impossible to write about any of…

Bad sport Sir: At last a respected member of the shooting community has popped his head above the parapet. Patrick…

From The Spectator, 15 July 1922:   It is true that things so small as postcards cannot give one the…

Dominic Cummings, chief adviser to the Prime Minister, thinks that there is no ‘better book than Thucydides as training for politics’. But…

Parliamentary days Could one of parliament’s longest sessions be followed by one of its shortest? — The shortest was between…

The start of term at Oxford University is bittersweet for the close-knit Morrisseys; we have just ‘lost’ three offspring to…

Home Brexit teetered from uncertainty to uncertainty. Parliament had been summoned to sit on Saturday 19 October to debate what…

Before the referendum, David Davis thought that the Brexit process would be straightforward. ‘The first calling point of the UK’s…