Matthew Parris

The late Lord Hattersley left Hay literature festival in style, but the rest of us were covered in mud

Andy Burnham’s devolution plans may have caught the imagination but pointless reorganisation won’t bring growth

News that a couple in Wales want to farm them for the table reminded me of an unfortunate boyhood massacre

A stray thought of my own while watching Iranian drones tracing fiery paths over the Gulf, a stray quote from Ukraine and the background rumble of

A stray thought of my own while watching Iranian drones tracing fiery paths over the Gulf, a stray quote from Ukraine and the background rumble of uncertainty about Britain’s Defence Investment Plan, have set my mind racing. My conclusion is at the...

The late MP had a pantomime-dame quality, similar to that of Margaret Thatcher, that appealed to gay Tories

The caller made out that she was trying to help me but by the time I realised it was all a con she was in my Apple Wallet and I was £200 down

Every time I begin to see Kemi Badenoch as a plausible leader not of the Conservative party alone, but of the whole nation, something crops up to spoil it.

There is something miraculous about the Mathews Range in Kenya, clothed in forest and cloud

Winston Churchill had a name for it. ‘Happy thoughts' was his description of policy proposals that gave the proposer a warm feeling but were unfeasible, unaffordable or for other reasons no more than desiderata.