My review of Serhii Plokhy's new book on Ukraine, ‘The Russo-Ukrainian War’ in today's Mail on Sunday ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13232163/PETER-HITCHENS-ANYBODY-call-time-crazy-Kaiser-Bills-clock-meddling-folly.html ...

It is just 50 years since I graduated from what was then the shiny new University of York. I and a few hundred others had spent three years on a wooded campus entirely divorced from normal life. We ...

War makes people lose their marbles. As soon as the shooting starts, the thinking stops. This is understandable (if often unwise) if you are directly involved. But the rest of us should be more ...

Is Ukraine stuck? Wars can be very unpredictable – especially in their early weeks – but there are a lot of signs that Ukraine has run into political and military trouble. It is not that its forces ...

I say 'Thank God!' if what looked like Civil War in Russia really has been averted. I hate to think what would have happened to the endlessly oppressed, repeatedly robbed stoical, brave Russian people ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13192729/PETER-HITCHENS-doctored-royal-photo-trivial-epitomises-era-open-monstrous-deceit-Stalin-never-dream-of.html ...

There is still just time for our Government to do a good, brave deed, which will be recognised as such decades hence. There is still just time for prominent figures in politics and the media to place ...

From time to time, while searching my electronic attic, I come across articles from the past which strike me as worth re-issuing here. This is one such, is from November 2012: 'As I smiled my way ...

The current wave of shoplifting is especially frightening. It is not some invented panic. And others close to me have witnessed it in recent days. Crucially, even the dimmest criminal has now realised ...

A huge part of the misery and crime which plague our country is linked to the abuse of illegal drugs. Marijuana users, especially, are common among the culprits of horrible, violent crimes and ...