This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday column We must pull our troops out of Afghanistan. It is no good waiting for the Americans to lift us off this hook. They will leave, too, in the end, but they do...

Read Peter Hitchens only in The Mail on Sunday David Davis publishes a deeply pessimistic account of the corruption and failure of the Afghan government we prop up, and report after report, from journalists with the troops, from intelligence agencies,...

Peter Hitchens seems to me one of the few independently-minded journalists in the mainstream media. One of the pieces in the MoS (and his blog) today reflects on the damage caused by BBC blabbermouth financial commentator Robert Peston and whether the credit crunch could have been anticipated. Hitchens says, in passing, that although he himself had bad feelings about our Roaring-Twenties-type econ...

One of Britain's most senior military officers warned last night that there was no point in sending reinforcements to Afghanistan until the Afghans themselves were able to control the ground captured by foreign troops. Lieutenant General Sir Peter Wall, who is responsible for overseeing British military operations, said the notion that "flooding" Afghanistan with a "whole load" more troops wa...

On Sunday I fisked Peter Hitchens' regular Mail on Sunday article. Peter requested a right to reply and I publish his full reply below. "May I respond to some of the criticisms of my views levelled by Tim and by...

Following the death of Christopher Hitchens, we republish Brendan O’Neill’s interview with him and his brother Peter from 10 years ago.

If the right-winger Peter Hitchens, like him or loathe him (and I like him), can be relied on for anything, it is to bring the most unfashionable ideas to the table with a compelling probity that only a fool would dismiss. This time round, in today’s Mail on Sunday, his opinions on the veracity of

I wonder what Peter Hitchens would make of those people inclined to sympathise profoundly with his piercing and insightful analysis of British society and Britain's ills - but find little to no value in his analysis of the Conservative Party....

Top Story The United States is aiming to send 20,000 to 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan before this summer, according to Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Three thousand will be sent next month. Most of the troops will be sent to bolster struggling European forces in Southern Afghanistan. Though he stressed that progress had been made by the troops already there,...

Gordon Brown has arrived at the NATO summit with an offer of up to 1000 extra troops to go to Afghanistan on a temporary mission to ensure the August elections there go smoothly. This peace keeping role would be carried out in the South. Officials say the numbers sent would be “mid-late hundreds”. Britain already has over 8000 troops in Afghanistan as part of the NATO force – the...