Peter Hitchens

PETER HITCHENS: After the frightful trial of Sara Sharif 's killers, there was a sudden chorus saying that home-schooling ought now to be more tightly restricted in this country. This makes little sense.

I do not ask you to like Graham Phillips, or even to sympathise with him. But you shouldn't approve of what our Government is doing to him. He is living in a bombed-out, unheated block of flats in Mariupol.

Whatever happened to the telephone? Perhaps the most brilliant invention of the modern age, it is being driven out of business by inferior rivals.

Yes, I admit it, I did once apply to be a Lord. There was a short-lived scheme to appoint a few so-called 'People's Peers'.

The advance of the dangerous e-scooter - now causing increasing misery on our streets - is a symbol of the decline of our country and its once-impressive levels of road safety.

America's Right Wing is absolutely not the friend of British conservatives, and those of us who want to defend our country's traditions should steer clear of Trumpoids and Muskites.

In the words I reproduce in this article, there is something very shocking about the Lucy Letby case. It comes from a speech made in the House of Commons last Wednesday.

You know you are innocent. But somehow it has not gone that way in court, and you gape in dismay as the jury foreman declares you guilty.

Rattling through the Ukrainian night in his T-shirt, aboard Kiev 's grandiose official train, Sir Keir Starmer ponders spending yet more money we do not have on a war in which we have no interest.

Millions once wanted to be Bob Dylan. God forgive me, I was one of them. I tell you this because the era of Dylan will soon be over, and those who come after it will find it impossible to understand.