SIMON HEFFER: It is an insult to voters to suggest we don't know the NHS...
The Tories stand by their ill-executed funding reform plan despite the near-unanimous opinion of staff, while Labour insists on throwing more money at the health service, writes SIMON HEFFER.
View ArticleHarry Roberts should die in prison - but politicians are powerless to stop...
Until six years ago, politicians were able to overrule the Parole Board - but in 2008 the Court of Appeal brought a halt to this citing Labour's Human Rights Act, writes SIMON HEFFER.
View ArticleSIMON HEFFER: Why should the English pay to fix the NHS disaster in Wales?
The Welsh NHS crisis is precisely what happens when a Labour administration is allowed to be in charge of a vital public service, writes SIMON HEFFER.
View ArticleHow to beat UKIP, Dave? Give us a vote on the EU NEXT year
Often, I despair of David Cameron’s efforts to secure a Conservative victory in next May’s general election.
View ArticleWhy David Cameron should pray that Ed Miliband doesn't quit
Since his pitiful conference speech and Labour’s plunge in the polls in its Scottish heartland, Mr Miliband looks like a loser, says SIMON HEFFER.
View ArticleSIMON HEFFER: 'Savage cuts'? You ain't seen nothing yet
If the Guardian-reading classes think we’ve suffered an excess of austerity, I have a message for them, and for the rest of the country: you ain’t seen nothing yet, writes SIMON HEFFER.
View ArticleSIMON HEFFER: Now there's only one way to stop Ed being PM
The truth is that unless David Cameron agrees a deal with Ukip, so as to stop splitting the centre-right vote across the country, Ed Miliband will be prime minister in six months’ time.
View ArticleMy friend may be an arrogant idiot... but he's not evil, by SIMON HEFFER
By finding against him in his libel action, the judge has, I am sure, ruined the Conservative MP’s chances of returning to high political office, writes SIMON HEFFER.
View ArticleSIMON HEFFER: Why I believe it's inevitable we will have an all-English...
The English have been lamentably slow to wake up to the outrageous privileges enjoyed by the Scots since devolution 15 years ago, says SIMON HEFFER.
View ArticleSIMON HEFFER: On your marks - the election starts here
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, left, with his deputy the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander leave the Treasury for the House of Commons to deliver the Autumn...
View ArticleSIMON HEFFER: Shame on the BBC's Lefties for talking Britain down
The economy is on a knife-edge. Depending on the course now taken, we can either consolidate the recovery or we can revert to recession and a loss of international credibility, writes Simon Heffer.
View ArticleOld Heffer's Almanac 2015: Russell Brand humiliated. Germany quits the euro....
As is traditional at the year’s end, Old Heffer brings out his trusty crystal ball. After turning into zombies in recent months because of the Parliament Act, politicians will be back to their normal...
View ArticleSIMON HEFFER: France, a land tormented by its history as hostility between...
Racial tensions have run high for years in France and the fact is that there is a clash of cultures and a cauldron of hatreds that made yesterday’s attack almost inevitable, writes SIMON HEFFER.
View ArticleHe paid price for loyalty to Maggie: How leaked letter marked the end of...
Leon Brittan's departure over the letter that criticised Michael Heseltine was a crushing blow for an ambitious man, still only 46 and with, as he saw it, more glittering prizes ahead of him.
View ArticleSIMON HEFFER pays tribute to Nigel Fanshawe who proved grammar schools...
Nigel Fanshawe was never simply a headmaster. To those who had the great good fortune to be part of his school, he was an example, an inspiration and a friend, writes SIMON HEFFER.
View ArticleSIMON HEFFER: Ruthless, but it DID help defeat a savage foe
It is regrettable that so many lives were lost in the bombing of Dresden, but the fact they were was a consequence of Hitler unleashing his savage war, writes SIMON HEFFER.
View ArticleSIMON HEFFER: How could any sane Labour voter not switch to Tories?
If a leader is reduced to baseless scaremongering before the election campaign proper has even started, things are desperate for him and for his party, says SIMON HEFFER.
View Article'The allegations against Enoch Powell are a monstrous lie' writes Simon Heffer
It is disgraceful and destabilising for clergy to behave in this way and the Church needs to investigate those responsible for this smear and take action.
View ArticleSIMON HEFFER: Why do people STILL lionise IRA apologist John Lennon?
The truth is that Lennon was a man whose reputation was holed below the waterline even before the Beatles broke up, and won't stop sinking.
View ArticleGoodbye to the man who could never admit he got it all wrong: SIMON HEFFER...
He was one of the architects of Labour’s economic policy that helped engineer the worst crash since 1931, with public debt doubling and the stock market plunging, writes SIMON HEFFER.
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