Simon Heffer's Blog, page 6

Attention Corbynistas: Your party lost the election

O ver-excited by losing the election less badly than predicted, Labour is struggling to restrain its arrogant Marxist tendencies. Emily Thornberry, its foreign affairs spokesman, has persistently claimed Labour didn���t lose, a parodic approach to reality that seems straight from the pages of 1984.

The Grenfell Tower horror has shown that the Maybot is broken

I t would be brave to the point of recklessness to believe the catastrophe at Grenfell Tower is not another severe test of the Tory party���s tolerance of the limitations of Theresa May. If she lasts another few weeks, she may well get her Queen���s Speech through: but it cannot...

Authentic and profound, A Family At War shows how Britain could lead the world in TV drama

I t has become idiomatic ��� not least because it is true ��� that only America can make good long-run television drama series today. For nearly 20 years British audiences have lapped up such masterpieces as The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad and Mad Men.

Theresa May is finished. Her successor must heed the price she paid

S hortly before Mrs May called the election, I asked her doomed adviser, Nick Timothy, whether there would be a poll before 2020. I was told ��� I am sure sincerely ��� that there would not.

Cricket will need two record books sooner rather than later

I n a typically well-argued and thoughtful piece last Wednesday, my colleague Jonathan Liew contended that the way cricket presents its statistics and records is wrong .

I cannot wait for the rational debate about Brexit to resume

T he latest anti-Brexit scare is that we shall run out of people to care for our elderly in years to come. This is dishonest on so many levels one hardly knows where to start.

Corbyn���s moral failings bar him from No 10

A be Lincoln���s words echoed in our depressing general election during the week, when pollsters showed Labour closing in on the Tories , and pundits said how magnificently Jeremy Corbyn was performing as its leader. You can, indeed, fool (almost) all the people some of the time, and some of...

Jeremy Corbyn has long hated Britain

J ust as Labour started to climb in the opinion polls it was typical of Jeremy Corbyn to make a speech yesterday in which he effectively blamed British foreign policy for the Manchester attack. I agree with Mr Corbyn that some of the interventions in foreign wars in recent years...

If we are at war with terrorists, let us behave accordingly

S ince the Manchester atrocity several readers have emailed me with this question: how many more innocent people must die before we root out Islamist extremists? That little girls and their mothers were murdered has, inevitably, sparked special outrage, and prompted calls for retribution reminiscent of those after the Birmingham...

Dirty deeds in 'the sewers of Parliament': the Tory whips who inspired the original House of Cards

T he phenomenal success of the American Netflix series franchise House of Cards ��� which begins a new series this week ��� has taken the concept far from its British roots in the 28 years since Michael ��� now Lord ��� Dobbs published his novel of the same name in...