David Reynolds or Simon Schama: These very different historians show the...
NIGEL JONES: David Reynolds shows Stalin as the ruthless monster he really was, yet next week Radio 4 is treating us to a doubtless softball inquisition of the veteran soviet apologist Eric Hobsbawm.
View ArticleFrench election 2012: The reasons to welcome a socialist win in France
NIGEL JONES: I have just returned from a holiday across the Channel. Aside from enjoying the food and wine, I was expecting to find the place engulfed in election fever. Alas, no such luck.
View ArticleTime for a new Airey Neave to save the Tories from dismal Dave
NIGEL JONES: Just as in 1974, a lacklustre Labour opposition is content to wait for power to fall yet again into its hands. Which it will surely do unless a new Airey Neave emerges to organise their...
View ArticleHe saw the appalling slaughter inflicted by Germany on Europe, so is it any...
NIGEL JONES: 'The Germans will try again, given another chance' Sir Patrick Moore said in a recent interview, adding for good measure: 'A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead...
View ArticleWith Cameron limping from one bad week to another, a leadership contest...
NIGEL JONES: Tory MP Nadine Dorries (pictured) has told the Mail on Sunday that unless Cameron changes his Liberal-yellow spots sharpish he's going to have to go.
View ArticleEU Referendum: You don't like the idea, Dave - but we WILL have our say on...
NIGEL JONES: The Referendum is an idea whose time has come at last, and unless Cameron is very careful, Labour will steal UKIP's clothes, and, following Harold Wilson's example in 1975, give the...
View ArticleFrom Nanny State to Nappy State: Dave's handy how-to guide to wiping your...
NIGEL JONES: We might have expected the PM to focus on wiping out debts and the deficit. Instead, he seems more intent on wiping poo from babies' nappies.
View ArticleNick Clegg's 'social mobility' drive stinks of hypocrisy
NIGEL JONES: Nick Clegg wants to perpetuate the tragedy set in train by the abolition of Grammar Schools which has already produced a generation of youngsters unable to compete in life's tough race.
View ArticleThe Tory leadership race has started, and Osborne's trailing in third behind...
NIGEL JONES: While all eyes may be fixed on the London Olympics later this summer, the roar of the crowd might have drowned out the unofficial starting gun the sprint to be the next Tory leader.
View ArticleWimbledon 2012: Why English support for Andy Murray was not all it might...
NIGEL JONES: Despite the sea of Union Flags at Wimbledon, when we think of Andy Murray it is not that symbol of Britishness that first springs to mind, but the separatist saltire of St Andrew.
View ArticleIf Nick Clegg had any knowledge of British history, he'd know that Liberals...
NIGEL JONES: The complete collapse within two years of Nick Clegg's two most cherished political dreams should surprise no-one with a knowledge of British political history.
View ArticleDon't be fooled! Hague's EU 'audit' is just a can-kicking trick to hoodwink...
NIGEL JONES: The campaign by the Conservative party's high command to pretend that they are doing something to protect Britain against the EU is in full swing
View ArticleSacre Bleu! Those thieving Frenchies want to steal our Crown Jewels!
NIGEL JONES: The French city of Angers, is demanding the Crown Jewels as 'compensation' for the execution of the last of England's Angevin dynasty.
View ArticleThe PM is wrong to sneer at Switzerland - it's the sort of country Britain...
NIGEL JONES: Compared to sleazy, crime-ridden Britain, with its stagnant economy - not to mention its clueless and incompetent political leadership - Switzerland is still what our country once was: an...
View Article"Do what I say, don't do what I do" - The hypocrisy of the Left over education
NIGEL JONES: Reading the obituary of the radical left-wing journalist Alexander Cockburn this week, I was shocked but scarcely surprised to discover he attended the exclusive Glenalmond College in...
View ArticleWith these increasingly ignorant politicians as cooks, it's no wonder that...
NIGEL JONES: Even if they are too busy tweeting and appearing on witless TV shows to research and write history, you might hope that the politicians of today would at least read it.
View ArticleSo, what price the 'loonies, fruitcakes and racists' of UKIP now, Dave?
Outside hope: If the Conservative Party drop Dave and grant a referendum, UKIP voters who hold the margin between defeat and victory in at least 20 Tory seats may - just may - return to the Tory fold
View ArticleThe BBC declined to have a statue of George Orwell outside its headquarters....
NIGEL JONES: Orwell deserves his statue all right - but perhaps Mark Thompson is right. Today's BBC - aka the Ministry of Truth - might not be the best place for it after all.
View ArticleThe BBC has commissioned a Tory drama - what's going on?
NIGEL JONES: Occasionally, the BBC machinery slips far enough to let a non-Leftist piece of quality work through the net. This seems to have happened big time with 'Parades End', the major five-part...
View ArticleDon't look now Dave and Damian - but your crew is mutinying
NIGEL JONES: The Titanic is an apt metaphor for where the Tories are heading under Captain Cameron's leadership. His maiden voyage, the Coalition, is steering straight for the iceberg.
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