We must never forget

THESE are the faces of the British fallen in Afghanistan.   They died for freedom, mostly at the hands of terrorists, but tragically also because they lacked the necessary equipment and kit with which to protect themselves. We could be...

Restoring democracy in Iraq has led to slaughter of the gays

SOCIAL Cleansing is alive and well and living in downtown Baghdad and other parts of Iraq. The target: gays. When Hitler sent homosexuals, lesbians, mentally ill, physically disabled and gypsies to the gas chambers along with the Jews, he did...

Charging to read my column

QUESTION - would you pay to read this blog? The answer is probably no, but with the Internet causing newspapers serious financial harm, there is a case to be made for publishers charging for access to web content. Currently, most newspapers put a selection...

Labour MPs start to shun Gordon Brown

A REVEALING insight into the mindset of the Labour Party as it contemplates electoral defeat comes with the The Daily Telegraph story that 12 Cabinet ministers are without parliamentary private secretaries because backbenchers are shunning Gordon...

34 minutes and 56 seconds past 12 midday on August 7, 2009

At 12.34:56 this afternoon, it will be 123456789. Krakatoa is starting to rumble. Etna and Vesuvius are fiery. Temperatures are soaring. Fires consume California, the Canary Islands and Mediterranean coastal belt. Is this the start of Armageddon? Will...

Braveheart and the Scottish Nationalists

I  HAVE ALWAYS said that Mel Gibson's appalling film Braveheart was a load of jingoistic twaddle, and I see from The Times today that it has been classified in the top ten of the most historically inaccurate films ever made. Gibson...

Remembering the Minden Rose

THIS week we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Minden, when a combined British and Hanoverian force gave the French a good thrashing in a campaign which became known as the Seven Years War.  At Minden, which is in north-west...