Alexander Boot

Marine Le Pen’s relationship with French Muslims closely resembles that between a dog and a tree, and I’ll let you decide who’s the dog and who’s the tree.

I first came across the name at a single-digit age, when reading about the Napoleonic Wars.

Lately, we’ve heard all sorts of criticism of Zelensky and his country.

Whenever and wherever young people rise in revolt, one can expect Greta Thunberg, now of age, to be there, inciting, screaming slogans and in general making a nuisance of herself.

French six-formers are still rioting in the streets, burning wheelie bins, fighting with policemen, destroying bus shelters, building barricades – well, you get the picture.

Something happened in Europe on the way to the 20th century, specifically in the middle of the 19th.

Just as Russia steps up terrorist raids on Ukrainian cities, Trump has shown yet again where his loyalties lie.

And what exactly is it?

Hundreds of Hamas fans marched through central London yesterday, waving Palestinian flags and shouting things like “from the river to the sea”, “intifada”, “jihad” and “baby killers”.

Facts first, or rather what has been reported as facts.

In his interview of Jacob Rees-Mogg, Tucker Carlson said so many stupid things that it was easy to miss one point that’s actually worth discussing.

When I spend an hour watching a video, I expect to learn something I didn’t know before.

The Donald sees the world in terms of property parcels to be bought or otherwise appropriated and then sold at a profit.

We knew an elderly French couple whose son was killed during the 1968 riots.

We ought to be thankful to Manny Macron.

Andy Burnham gets full marks for candour: in his speech at the Labour Party conference Andy didn’t try to conceal his plans for turning Britain into a Marxist state.

Judging by Trump’s statements, this is exactly what he thinks.

Is Ed Miliband Irish at heart?

The resulting colour will be brown, and this works not only in chromatics but also in politics.

One could argue that a writer always writes about himself even if his subject is ostensibly different.

In 1873 John Henry Newman published his canonical work The Idea of a University, where he argued that a university’s purpose ought to be the pursuit of universal knowledge rather than vocational training.

A funny thing happened to the word ‘discrimination’ on the way to modernity.

Asked whether or not Labour’s next manifesto will include the pledge to rejoin the EU, Andy Burnham replied: “My immediate priority is to build on the good work that Keir did in rebuilding bridges, because those bridges were broken in the early part of th…

Yes, I know it’s difficult.

The Pope rates an honorary, if posthumous, membership in my Charles Martel Society for Multiculturalism.

In his day, Lord John Fletcher Moulton (1844-1921) was considered one of the most intelligent men in Britain.

Don’t get me wrong.

It’s lovely to see that generosity still resides in the hearts of men.

Both Dolly Parton and Yuja Wang graced the Last Night of The Proms with their presence.

As a British patriot, I can’t stand being outdone by foreigners, especially the French.

One wonderful thing about Donald Trump is that he never runs out of ways to amaze me.

Trump congratulates, Musk rejoices, Putin celebrates.

Make no mistake about it: the genocide of Christians in Nigeria is a gruesome reality.

In his preface to Animal Farm, George Orwell wrote: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”.

“Man is by nature a political animal,” said Aristotle, undoubtedly an extremely intelligent thinker.

Transsexuals have no rights.

I wish I had a tenner for each time someone says that university education, or erudition in general, doesn’t equate intelligence.

This modified version of Evelyn Waugh’s title seems to describe the current situation adequately.

God save us, the man is mad – in general and at Canada.

The world owes quite a bit to England.