A Political Refugee From the Global Village

In the 1980s I detested Margaret Thatcher and in the 1990s disliked the Thatcherites. That's why I sort of accepted John Major's ar...

Boris seems overwhelmingly the choice of Tory MPs, winning the votes of 141 MPs. Jeremy Hunt, a Remainer who has flip-flopped so many time...

I remember that when one nobleman and politician died in the period before 1914, another peer praised him for his faithfulness 'to his ...

An interesting article in the Catholic Herald says that, well into the reign of Pope St John XXIII, the Vatican's official newspaper, ...

"I’ve had the impression for months now that the main interest of British politicians was to find a way to replace Theresa May, not to...

I recently mentioned a German professor who is being prosecuted for making a link between paedophilia and homosexuality.  I wrote about h...

Boris Johnson in an interview in Time in January 2015 said he was not a serious practicing Christian but thinks about religion a lot. He s...

"Although no-deal is now the only realistic way to deliver a proper Brexit, British politics has become so warped that even success r...

Der Spiegel the German newspaper has the story that at a court in Kassel, Ulrich Kutschera, Professor of Biology at Kassel University, is ...

The Lancet is perhaps the world's most authoritative  general medical journal . It informs doctors of medical developments but now it h...

“A person's life isn't orderly ...it runs about all over the place, in and out through time. The present's hardly there; the fu...

I wrote on Tuesday about biassed and unreliable reporting from Syria, which makes understanding the situation so difficult.  I, like yo...

John O'Sullivan described the Tory leadership election with the wit of his 1970s Commons Sketches in the Telegraph, my teenage reading ...

I wish I had spoken to my father, who signed up for the army on 1 September 1939 (he was in the Territorials and was called up two days bef...

The 40th anniversary of D-Day was celebrated on a very big scale because by the 50th anniversary many veterans would have died. It took pla...

Theresa May wanted to know the detail about all sorts of government policies, which at first made her cabinet happy, until they realised t...

Louisa Loveluck's story in the Washington Post is behind a paywall so I can't read it (part of it is here ). She says, based on w...

"Catholics should not support or attend LGBTQ “Pride Month” events held in June. They promote a culture and encourage activities that...

Right Scholarship added, Bishop Thomas Tobin   @ThomasJTobin1 A reminder that Catholics should not support or attend LGBTQ “Pri...

The Anglican Bishop of Liverpool Paul Bayes is an ass. On BBC Radio Four today he criticised Donald Trump , on the ground that  “I don’...

A leaked confidential British military document from 2017, entitled “Extreme Right Wing (XRW) Indicators and Warnings”, tells officers ...

Marina Hyde’s politics are very different from mine. I think her views on most things are appalling, but unlike most left-wingers she is fu...

Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn St...

"Speaking of America as a “nation of immigrants” encourages contempt for our common culture, which originated with the English colonis...

'Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be a great evil. You never find people labouring ...

I am ashamed that I do not research countries that I visit properly. Azerbaijan, where I spent three days this month, for example. Read wha...

Today Theresa May has been Prime Minister for as long as Gordon Brown.  Prime Ministers care about such things. Churchill was careful t...

Nigel Farage's Brexit Party, formed from scratch six weeks ago, did very well in the European Parliamentary elections. They won by far ...

Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...

Whoever had been British Prime Minister after the referendum would have had a terribly difficult job - no one disputes that. But Mrs May br...