A Political Refugee From the Global Village

I forgot to recommend this essay in Unherd about a leading intellectual of the French New Right of whom I had scarcely heard called Guilla...

Sweden which did not have a lockdown now has the highest daily number of deaths of people who have the Covid-19 virus. What is more impor...

"I think the epidemic has largely come and is on its way out in this country, so I think   [the infection fatality rate] would defini...

I share Churchill's admiration for Robert E. Lee. I am always attracted to lost causes. In an article written in the 1930s Churchi...

'Economics are the method: the object is to change the soul'. Margaret Thatcher talking to the Sunday Times on 1 May 1981 'The...

The terraces reopen in Romania on Monday week, June 1. On June 15, the interiors of restaurants will re-open with special rules about dista...

Here is another quiz. This is Bucharest this afternoon. The biggest building in Europe is on the horizon and you can just make out a cupo...

I was invited to a virtual pub quiz on SKYPE on Sunday. Everyone was British except one American Anglophile and the questions were weighted...

'A monarchy is its own ideology.' Mark Steyn One is not a monarchist for reasons. Monarchists despise reasons just as no-one ...

Marijuana is legal and haircuts are against the law. It took half a century but Hippies finally won. — RUTH BUZZI (@Ruth_A_Buzzi) May ...

Lord Curzon said that without India England would be a greater Belgium. A greater Belgium sounds to me very like modern Europe. Julie Bu...

If the Covid-19 virus had not been identified would the deaths from it have passed unnoticed? It's just an interesting and important...

As a footnote (headnote) to the last two paragraphs of my last post, I now learn Knut Wittkowski has told the New York Times that YouTube r...

A protest is taking place in Piata Victoriei, in front of the Romanian government building, against the lockdown which ended yesterday.  ...

Will the Coronavirus pandemic (apparently it is not a pandemic, because too few people have been infected so far, but let that pass) be som...

I wish the evil deeds of the far left were as well known as those of the far right. Workers restoring the casino in Constanta have found a...

'I think Britain is a much, much better place than when I first came here [in 1973]. It’s more cosmopolitan and worldly, and I love tha...

Toma commented on my blog that deaths in Romania in March 2020 were 298 lower than in March 2019 and 411 lower in February 2020 compared to...

Vitamin D is an excellent medicine against all viruses, especially in the yummy form of sun dried tomatoes and, little as I like wearing th...

“We are losing a city of 15,000, 16,000 people per year just by the fact that we have 15,000, 16,000 more deaths than births. For a countr...

Free at last! Naturally an overcast cool morning. I wandered into the Mavrogheni church by the National Peasant Museum, a place with unhapp...

News coverage of the virus pandemic in the West is entwined with the contemporary Western obsession about race. Here is an example of race-...

'And thorough research in New York City, where there has been the greatest concentration of occurrences of the illness in North Americ...

Horațiu Moldovan,  Secretary of State (junior minister) in the Romanian Ministry of Health,  said on Wednesday that the official Romanian b...

It is now clear that Sweden was right not to have a lockdown, because  deaths in Sweden of people with (not necessarily of) Coronavirus hav...