UP to 1,700 Royal Marines are to be sent to Afghanistan to fight Taleban and al-Oa'eda forces; it is the largest fighting force to be sent abroad since the Gulf war in 1991. The...

IF you were looking for someone to encapsulate the public image of the perfect British bobby. Commander Brian Paddick of the Met would not be your man. Dixon of Dock Green did...

S uspended high above the snow in the Swiss Alps, on a ski-lift that had mysteriously stopped, I was reminded of that famous phrase in a Times editorial of long ago —...

ANDREW GIMSOIN L ady Thatcher's book may not have fallen stillborn from the press, but the extracts from it about the European Union in this week's Times have created nothing...

Rachel Johnson on the latest government scheme to make Oxbridge discriminate against independent-school candidates SCHOLARS at Winchester have long been regarded as the...

AS tribal warfare extends all over Afghanistan and the job of the peacekeepers becomes more and more impossible, the example of the late Roman empire in the West comes to mind....

MY husband has been to a gaudy or something, which means being away for two days — a long time to take for dinner. The silence is like a sea-bathe. I've been reading Children's...

The jury is said to be a shield against tyranny, says Andrew Geddes, a circuit judge. But is it a shield against crime? WE do not know how juries reach their verdicts. Any...

Mark Steyn says that while Bush fights to save the civilised world, his opponents are working against him at home New Hampshire 'I COULD barely get my coffee down,' said...

It is five to midnight for the Tories, says Francis Maude, but they can still recover THE Conservative party has teetered on the brink of oblivion several times in its long...

As MPs again vote against hunting, David Welch condemns a pastime he once enjoyed I AM a countryman. My earliest memories are of being tied to a hop bin while my mother and...

I MADE a momentous discovery outside the prison last week: I discovered what God created bushes for. The illumination came to me as I was passing a little piece of waste ground....

Poland's new premier is a repressive ex-communist. Anne Applebaum wonders why Tony Blair is his new best friend IN elections held last September, the people of Poland chose a...