A Political Refugee From The Global Village

This interesting article by Simon Jenkins in today's Guardian  is a refreshing diatribe against mathematics.  I wonder what subjects ...

"The UN watchdog for children’s rights denounced the Holy See for adopting policies allowing priests to sexually abuse thousands of c...

The Belgians are “surprised” that much – not enough, but still much – of the world is repulsed by the  country legalising child euthanasia ...

For a sixth week storms continue to batter Great Britain.  It is a lie that the floods  have anything to do with climate change. My friend ...

Anne Applebaum in the introduction to  Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56  quotes Hannah Arendt, who said the story of ...

I have been sick for a couple of days and stayed at home, unable to do much work. The one consolation for being sick is that reading J...

George Kennan said,  "One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household."  Actually I never rea...

Reading Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road, the final volume in his account of his walk aged 18 across Europe in 1934, is like fee...

Admitting a million Poles, even though in good manners, industry, church attendance and many other ways they put many of the British to sha...

"Les savants ne sont pas curieux" (Anatole France) Very good news! The earth was warmer in Roman and mediaeval times, accordin...

The Sunday Telegraph today says that at Nelson Mandela's interminable funeral Tony Blair introduced Romanian Prime Minister Victor Pon...

The greatest Englishman after William Shakespeare, died on this day in 1784. I used to have a copy of a print of this hanging in my house i...

I supposed they would put Nelson Mandela on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, which seems to me absurd. I would give it to Jacques Chir...

I want to reread Squire Haggard's Journal which I found precis-ed thus by Amazon :  Haggard's typical entries begin with some n...

I was a very bookish child and my parents worried that I would live life at second-hand. I wonder if I did. Anyhow, when I was fourteen o...

I met a very nice Hungarian in Mercurea Ciuc who told me his two names were both Hungarian warrior names (one was Levente, the other I forg...

Bucharest used to be mostly shops like this fifteen years ago. I have watched the advance of progress here with dismay. Acknowledgements to...

Oddly, a couple of hours after seeing this picture on the Bucharest Realist Facebook page and hearing of Pasajul Englez, I accidentally...

"I've come here more times as prime minister than I've been anywhere other than Belgium."  - David Cameron , New Delhi ...

I'm beginning to get bored with reading about Islam in the news every day. Do others feel this way? Interesting though the subject was ...