My review of Serhii Plokhy's new book on Ukraine, ‘The Russo-Ukrainian War’ in today's Mail on Sunday ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13232163/PETER-HITCHENS-ANYBODY-call-time-crazy-Kaiser-Bills-clock-meddling-folly.html ...

Who decided to send British troops to Ukraine? What are they doing there? What would happen were they to be killed by Russian forces, or captured by them? And what was a British surveillance plane, ...

Each evening, as night falls on Baghdad, the Middle Ages return. This great modern city has been stripped of almost all the essentials of civilisation. By day it is not quite so obvious. But when the ...

It is just 50 years since I graduated from what was then the shiny new University of York. I and a few hundred others had spent three years on a wooded campus entirely divorced from normal life. We ...

War makes people lose their marbles. As soon as the shooting starts, the thinking stops. This is understandable (if often unwise) if you are directly involved. But the rest of us should be more ...

Is Ukraine stuck? Wars can be very unpredictable – especially in their early weeks – but there are a lot of signs that Ukraine has run into political and military trouble. It is not that its forces ...

I say 'Thank God!' if what looked like Civil War in Russia really has been averted. I hate to think what would have happened to the endlessly oppressed, repeatedly robbed stoical, brave Russian people ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13192729/PETER-HITCHENS-doctored-royal-photo-trivial-epitomises-era-open-monstrous-deceit-Stalin-never-dream-of.html ...

Was this Coronation a beginning or an end? As I watched its mostly ancient ceremonies, a briefly-opened door into the astonishing past, I was often moved. It was full of glory, though rather ...

There is still just time for our Government to do a good, brave deed, which will be recognised as such decades hence. There is still just time for prominent figures in politics and the media to place ...

The inflated grandees of Parliament’s Privileges Committee are currently pondering the vast issue of whether Al ‘Boris’ Johnson misled the Commons about some office parties. I care little for Mr ...