Simon Heffer's Blog, page 23

Paris terror attacks an alarm bell for liberal, borderless Europe

France could be one step closer to a far-Right president, Marine Le Pen, after the deadly Islamic State attacks in the French capital

The most important US election in a generation ��� and for Britain too

No one has enjoyed Barack Obama walking away from the world stage as much as Vladimir Putin

Blairites face extinction in Jeremy Corbyn���s plan

Labour MPs need to get rid of their leader before his supporters take over the party completely

England's spinners need help in practising their art

Simon Heffer: Spin bowlers mature later and need more opportunities to learn their trade in the County Championship

We're borrowing like there���s no tomorrow

Consumer credit has grown this year by a staggering 8.2 per cent, more than at any time since before the crash of 2008, as people exploit low interest rates to binge on credit cards.

David Cameron takes us for fools over his EU 'renegotiations'

We are told to expect within days disclosure of the Prime Ministers demands in his so-called negotiations with the European Union about our continued membership of that deeply undemocratic and economically spavined body. If one believes the briefings there are four demands, none of which appears to address directly the...

George Osborne could yet slip as he climbs the greasy pole to No 10

George Osborne is learning that if you must be favourite for a top political office, it is best not to emerge as such three or four years before there could be a vacancy

Lib Dem peers should get back in their box

How dare the unelected, unpopular rump of Lib Dems block the policies of a government endorsed by the people?

Reform the NHS ��� or watch it fade and die

The NHS is on its last legs, and only by fundamentally reforming it and the way in which its most regular clients - the elderly - are looked after will it have any chance of survival at all

Labour must throw out Jeremy Corbyn to survive

As long as these immature Marxists are in charge, the socialists will be locked out of power