A Political Refugee From the Global Village

Lord Berners, the painter, would roll down the window of his train carriage and beckon passengers in, putting his hand into his mouth and d...

The Times Diary today says that civil servants try to make their advice to ministers so simple that even the least intelligent can understa...

We broke open the champagne in the Liddle household on Friday. The United Nations had declared it a day for celebrating indigenous peoples...

"A red plague is not gripping our land anymore which does not mean that there is not a new one that wants to control our souls, hearts...

"Dean Clough Mills [in Halifax] hold a special place in British political history, too. The last time I was here was in May 2017, to ...

I watched an old episode of Cheers in my hotel and it was hilarious. Especially Cliff the postman who says, when someone asks what is the s...

A six man war cabinet will run Britain along with Dominic Cummings. Michael Gove will chair a committee of civil servants every day includi...

Jesus did not advocate Caesar taking from the Samaritans to finance the welfare state or letting Canaanite refugees flood into Judea and ma...

Philip Stephens in the Financial Times accuses Boris Johnson of being a Tory. In so doing he explains why so many Tories and non-Tories, w...

I feel euphoric about the boy, though I know Boris is a social liberal and I do not care that much about the economic side of conservatism....

I confess I am very excited by the new British Prime Minister. He's the first one I have liked in my lifetime.  And he has started very...

Evelyn Waugh said Churchill was a radio personality who outlived his prime.  Boris Johnson is a reality television star of genius, as is,...

"Perhaps we all eventually turn into caricatures of ourselves. As time went on, May certainly appeared to. That childhood-learned...

Think back five years: how bored we all were with the dull political consensus and how we wished for a change in the established order. Isn...

All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or des...

A lie may fool someone else but it tells you the truth, you're weak. Tom Wolfe Metternich told lies all the time, and never deceived an...

I like and respect Kenneth Clarke,   even though he is passionately pro-EU.  He was one of the left-wing Tories who thought Margaret Thatc...

An online friendship does not feel, to me, like friendship. It feels like an ever-receding touch. Tanya Gold, Guardian October 14 2018   ...

Tanya Gold annoys me. She accused John Cleese of racism because he said the  media in England is run by "half-educated tenement Scots&...

The cardinal sin was that David Cameron told civil servants not to make a contingency plan in case Leave won the referendum.  Had they ma...

"The Apollo program was designed by men, for men. If we do not acknowledge the gender bias of the early space program, it becomes diff...

“In America, if you hate our Country, you are free to leave. The simple fact of the matter is, the four Congresswomen think that America i...