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Author Peter Hitchens has predicted that Britain could still be debating coronavirus restrictions in a year, after the UK has been under some form of lockdown or restrictions since March 2020.

Queen Elizabeth II left isolation for the first time since March to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, as Britain attempts to commemorate the fallen despite the coronavirus lockdown.

The House of Commons has removed the exemption for MPs to drink past the nationwide curfew of 10 pm in Parliament’s bars, amidst widespread public outrage over the apparent double standards for politicians.

Number 10 Downing Street has reportedly confirmed that London and other major British cities could be placed under local lockdowns that would ban travel in and out of them if there is a spike in Chinese coronavirus cases.

Black Lives Matter activists verbally abused journalist Peter Hitchens as he strolled through the streets of Oxford to observe the far-left protest.

Not since Oliver Cromwell, when Puritans smashed any work of art they deemed impure, has Britain engaged in such a frenzy of iconoclasm.

Lockdown measures imposed by governments to tackle coronavirus may be excessive and based on false assumptions, writes James Delingpole.

Boris’s Conservatives have proved every bit as disappointing as the quite fantastically dismal Theresa May’s and David Cameron’s Tories.

Conservative critics are raising concerns over Boris Johnson’s liberal instincts, among them his high-spending and open-borders views.

The map showing how the General Election result would have turned out if only 18- to 24-year-olds voted is terrifying.

“The last time we were in territory like this it was decided by civil war” — one thing I love about British constitutional historian and national treasure David Starkey is that he’s never knowingly understated, writes James Delingpole.

In this week’s Delingpole podcast, special guest Peter Hitchens talks about his dismay at the lie that New Labour was even remotely “conservative”, Blair’s past as an “undeclared, former Marxist” and his own experience as a “revolutionary socialist.”

“Kill all the lawyers.” This has got to be my favourite line from Shakespeare – especially after the British High Court’s decision on the EU Referendum whereby a trio of left-leaning activist judges were able to overturn the democratic will of 17.4 million people by ruling: “No. That thing you all voted for. You can’t have it because obscure technical detail…”

Peter Hitchens writes in the Mail on Sunday: It will be good for Britain if Jeremy Corbyn wins his fight to stay as leader of the Labour Party. I agree with the late Queen Mother that the best political arrangement for

With characteristic subtlety, intelligence and insight, the New York Times has lumbered into the Brexit debate and dog-whistled its left-leaning readership with a piece heavy hinting that thanks to Nigel Farage Britain is the new Nazi Germany. Let’s examine its argument

Peter Hitchens explains the dangers of relying on scientific consensus on issues such as low fat diets in his Mail on Sunday column: Whenever I see a ‘low-fat muffin’ in a coffee shop, I have to control an urge to

Columnist and author Peter Hitchens has shared his views on ‘extremism’ in the Mail on Sunday: As an extremist, I am very worried about the planned Extremism Bill, which our Prime Minister is about to ram through Parliament. So should you

Peter Hitchens has shared his views on Ken Livingstone in the Mail on Sunday: I have known and disagreed with Ken Livingstone for nearly 40 years. I especially loathe his slippery excuse-making for the IRA, and I think he has done

From the Daily Mail: Now will we grasp that the United States is not our friend, but a foreign country whose interests are often different from ours? President Obama’s blatant intervention in our internal affairs is not a sudden breach

Writing in his column in the Mail on Sunday today, Peter Hitchens is perhaps the first non-Breitbart journalist to pick up on the fact that ‘Vote Leave‘ – run by Conservative Party figures Dominic Cummings and Matthew Elliott – don’t

Journalist and author, Peter Hitchens, has used his Sunday column this week to set out further his case against British involvement in military intervention in Syria. Peter Hitchens is, of course, not a pacifist. Describing himself in the Mail on

Two of the country’s most senior police officers have said funding cuts will result in a transformation to crime investigation and an end to routine patrols by “bobbies on the beat”. The suggestion was made to the BBC by the chairwoman

The Conservative Party has now almost completely morphed into New Labour, Mail on Sunday colunmist Peter Hitchens has said. Although most of the media commentariat heaped praise on the Prime Minister’s conference speech this week, Hitchens akses whether it was

Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens has today slammed Western hypocrisy, singling out the British and American governments for their condemnation of, and distancing from the Russian attacks on terrorist targets in Syria. Writing in the Mail, Hitchens states: I don’t think

Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens has continued his weekly attacks on Britain’s increasingly leftward-drifting Conservative Party, this time remarking upon how similar Tory policies are to those of the newly crowned Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Last week, Mr

Two topless feminists have stormed the stage at a Muslim conference in France. The activists, from hard-line feminist outfit Femen jumped on stage, with “Nobody makes me submit” scrawled across their bare chests. The most prominent protester shouted, “Nobody makes me

It is true that Peter Hitchens is one of the last public conservatives allowed to exist in Britain. The establishment is apparently willing to tolerate him as a relic, but eagerly waits to consign him to history and prevent any

Conservative commentator Peter Hitchens has called for the Tory party to rename itself the Socialist Workers Party as it would be a more honest description of its ideology. In an interview with left-winger Owen Jones, Hitchens a former Trotskyite, said

Journalist and author Peter Hitchens has been exposing the hypocrisy and cant of “posturing notables” regarding the refugee crisis. In most recent column for the Mail on Sunday he warns against the fundamental transformation of Britain sought by those seeking

Against the backdrop of the frankly insane immigration figures this week, the Mail on Sunday columnist and author Peter Hitchens has repeated his long-standing warning this week that Britain may well become a Muslim country within generations, and stated that

Journalist and author Peter Hitchens hits the target again. In his latest column for the Mail On Sunday he warns “smug Tories” of the dangers to them of the “bearded Lefty” Jeremy Corbyn winning the Labour leadership election, further reinforcing

In his latest column for the Mail on Sunday, journalist and author Peter Hitchens continues his campaign to expose the mistakes of Prime Minister David Cameron. On this occasion he turned his guns on Cameron’s “Libya folly” explaining the current

Author Peter Hitchens has continued his campaign against David Cameron’s government today, with a scathing piece in the Mail on Sunday declaring Mr Cameron as the Prime Minister “who will destroy freedom in order to save it”. Discussing the PM’s

Journalist and author Peter Hitchens has taken Britain’s Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to task in his Mail on Sunday column this weekend, shortly after she claimed that homosexuality is a fundamental British value, and said that those who seemed “intolerant” may