Simon Heffer's Blog, page 3

Police should be hunting real paedophiles now, not imaginary ones in the murky past

We must end this discredited witch hunt against dead men who can no longer defend themselves

Social media companies are plunging us into digital mob rule. Enough is enough

For too long firms like Facebook and Twitter have poached from newspapers and enabled grotesque libels and intimidation

Jihadis should be properly tried, then executed ��� not killed by drones in their beds

Gavin Williamson's absurd posturing on British jihadis shows he is just as much a twerp as the rest of his colleagues

Tory Brexiteers are privately furious about Theresa May's 'deal' with the EU

A leadership challenge could be the price the Prime Minister pays for a deeply dubious Brussels agreement

Joe Root must keep believing England can win the Ashes - if he doesn't, who will?

T here will be a few very old men left who will recall, as schoolboys, reading the newspaper reports of the 1936-37 series between Australia and England. Bradman was in his pomp; England included Wally Hammond and Hedley Verity; and it was the first time England had toured down under...

Beware Prime Minister, the Conservative Party will not tolerate further defence cuts

T hose with long memories will recall the Prime Minister, during her campaign to become Tory leader in 2016, promising that "a Conservative government I lead will make a strong defence an important priority".

The man who knows how a 'superhuman' race will disrupt our world - and why it could be here soon

N ick Bostrom, like Bertrand Russell, is eminent as a mathematician and as a philosopher. Unlike Russell, he deals predominantly with how our world awaits transformation by artificial intelligence.

Pieces of our chequered past: the best history books of 2017

A good work of history should challenge our presumptions, so where better to begin than with Catherine Nixey���s The Darkening Age: the Christian Destruction of the Classical World (Macmillan, ��20)? So accustomed are we to the destruction of Christian civilisation that we forget that the Christians did their share of...

Sacking a third of his Cabinet didn't save Macmillan, but it is Theresa May's best chance of survival

P rime ministers in trouble, or who think they are, traditionally hold a reshuffle. Most famously, after a haemorrhage of support to the supposedly moribund Liberal Party in 1962, and realising he was out of touch with public opinion, Harold Macmillan sacked a third of his cabinet in order to...

Preposterous championship cannot save Test game from the depredations of Twenty20

E ngland are a little over a fortnight away from resuming the 140-year rivalry with Australia in Test cricket, a contest the thoughtful Australian batsman, David Warner , has likened to ���war��� and which he says fills him with ���hatred��� .