Simon Heffer's Blog, page 21

Oxford���s thickos know no history

Rhodes must not fall. He should stay. And undegraduates should grow up

Heads must roll after the Bramall blunders

The police have become the tools, either witting or unwitting, of this national hysteria about child abuse

It���s treasonable to drop litter

We need to clean up the countryside. Fining people 5,000 for dropping rubbish would be a jolly good start

Corbyn���s Labour is now an irrelevant cult

Labour is now mostly a front for some of the vilest and most repulsive political movements on the planet

Ben Stokes innings an increasingly rare reminder of the fearless glory days of Test cricket

Simon Heffer: Without the ICC shifting its money-obsessed focus away from T20, and putting both its cash and its moral force behind test cricket, Test cricket is dead

Bad luck Oliver Letwin and Simon Danczuk, but what's Stephen Byers up to?

The behaviour of these three politicians has come under scrutiny, but they don't all deserve our contempt

People might like Cameron more if he wasn't such a phoney

The Prime Minister should stop worrying so much about appearing "posh". He is, and voters easily see through his PR attempts to suggest otherwise

Baroness D���Souza is one Lord we wouldn't miss

Voters expect their money to be spent a little more cautiously than this

Are the Tories heading for a split?

Mr Cameron has a character flaw of stoking up expectations to a preposterous and self-defeating level

Whatever Sir John Major says, do the opposite

The former Conservative prime minister is wrong: Britain should not stay in the EU on their ungenerous terms