Simon Heffer's Blog, page 26

Ashes 2015: England's success is built on sand

Simon Heffer: Test team's future is under threat because of the wilful neglect of the County Championship

Why on earth did Lord Sewel have a peerage?

If we did not laugh at the Sewel affair, we would weep at the damage done to the House of Lords

The flaw in Jeremy Clarkson's model

In the second part of his Sunday Telegraph column, Simon Heffer writes about the BBC's future, crisis in Calais, and Nigel Farage

The Tories have a golden opportunity to reshape the state

George Osborne could set in motion a restructuring of Britain to encourage private enterprise and self-reliance

Our police have gone to pot

Why on earth are Durham police no longer going to prosecute cannabis farmers?

Ralph Vaughan Williams's lost masterpiece

Ninety years after it was written, the English composer's Sancta Civitas is getting its Proms debut. About time too, says Simon Heffer

Ashes 2015: Lord's humiliation exposes England's fragile state of mind - especially facing Australia's quicks

Selectors must axe Ian Bell for Jonny Bairstow and decide how Ashes triumph turned to disaster so quickly, writes Simon Heffer

Ashes 2015: Alastair Cook's resistance of Geoffrey Boycott and John Edrich era as England battle to keep series lead

Simon Heffer: England have some way to go before they lose. Their first aim must be to pin Australia down as best they can and delay their declaration

The Royal family was not alone: Britons everywhere spent the Thirties mocking Hitler

In 1933 few Britons, and probably none of the age of seven, had any idea of Hitler's destructive, genocidal potential

Jeremy Corbyn is no laughing matter

He has condemned "atrocities" committed by Isil, but not Isil itself