Those of us who warned for years about mass immigration can only grieve now that the things we predicted are coming true. It is starting – where else? – in the primary schools, where people are simply ...

Well, given that it was "The ghost" who made such an objection, in his response to Elaine, I can only infer that it is he, or perhaps she, if it is a female spectre, whom you consider to be mainstream ...

I was at my adopted mum's by Winter of '63. I was 9. Oblivious to what children as young as 9 would be exposed to on the streets in 2000's. 1969 at 15 I met my husband on leaving school. Even then ...

Marvellous ! A comment that I think I understand, he said, checking to make sure. So if there are some who wish to attempt an uprising, and quite a lot appear keen to do so, you will do nothing to ...

A conversation between me and John Sweeney, on Ukraine, on BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback ...

How on earth did I end up on friendly terms with Howard Marks, the drug-smuggler and pro-cannabis propagandist who died last week? Yet I did. You might think we would loathe each other. He stood for ...

Shortly before Christmas I travelled to Lancaster's hilltop university on a spectacularly windy night (my bedroom windows blew open after one violent gust, like a scene from 'Wuthering Heights') to ...

I can’t blame the Army for trying to save itself from the current mad round of cuts, but could there be anything more ludicrous than a warning that we need to beef up the Army because it can’t cope ...

Here in my favourite American small town, I detect a strange, ominous feeling of approaching danger. Something has gone wrong with the USA. I first came to Moscow, Idaho, eight years ago when the ...

I am always amused when the wider world catches up with things I’ve known for decades. The inexcusable and savage deportation of Crimean Tatars by Stalin is one of the many bloodstained blots on that ...

I'm awaiting apologies from all the smug buffoons who told me that surrendering to the IRA in 1998 was a good thing to do. It brought peace, they said, ignorant of the true long-term price. As the ...

Here it is - this is what happens when William Hague calls for drug decriminalisation.