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If I'm honest, there's almost no one I'd like to see less as Britain's prime minister after the 2015 general election than David Cameron. So I can well understand why some of my fellow UKIPers – who feel much the same...

I've just had an email from Henry Dimbleby gently upbraiding me for my disobliging blogpost about his plans for school dinners. He makes a reasonable point: Your blog completely – intentionally? – missed the point of...

  There is barely a cigarette paper's difference between my own and Toby Young's opinion on most – if not all – political and social issues...

To listen to some of the people on Twitter you'd think all I ever did in life is go round being evil, abusing hamsters, stealing rusks from toddlers, hampering the noble work of the selfless scientists trying to save the...

"If I talk to trolls will I end up with pubic lice or scabies or ebola?" This, I know, is a question which exercises many of you. I detected this in some of the worried comments below my blog the other day when I quoted a...

Driving back from my holiday in Wales, yesterday, I realised what a lucky escape I’d had. As I exited the hills and finally got my mobile phone reception back, there was an old message from Friday inviting me to appear...

Perhaps the least edifying aspect of the News of the World saga has been the sanctimonious fervour of the liberal-left wallowing in a stew of its own self-righteousness...

Last night I saw the future of education in Britain – and it worked. The occasion was the launch of Katharine Birbalsingh’s free school in Lambeth, South London. As a local parent I was naturally very interested...

Amazing, isn’t it, what a little light military intervention can do to a nuclear crisis? One minute, the world is facing nuclear meltdown armageddon to rank with – ooh, Three Mile Island at the very least, and...

Which would you rather your kids learned at school: reading, writing, maths, sciences and at least one modern language? Or a less judgemental, non-hierarchical syllabus possibly but not necessarily including dubstep composition,...