A Political Refugee From The Global Village

Wren churches are utterly unspiritual, utterly Protestant and yet I am very fond of them and not only because of their beauty. They are, ...

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselv...

Boris Johnson made 'a solemn vow' not to sit in Parliament while serving as mayor of London and now intends to do exactly that. U...

I tried to watch the new Doctor Who last night. He is a Scotchman, presumably to help persuade the Scots to stay in the United Kingdom. I w...

This is an Interesting analysis by Fred Kagan in  the Sunday Telegraph. We British helped create this horror and we have to do something...

Wojcech saw that I was in Lublin on Facebook and  recommended  Kazimierz Dolny. Touristy and thoroughly predigested but I enjoyed it, resta...

I told Kevin as we drove that had my Romanian friend come with us - he was detained in Bucharest by affairs - he would have wanted to stay ...

I cannot admire nihilists like Emil Cioran or Samuel Beckett, but this aphorism of Cioran's is funny. "In a world without m...

I paid five lei (90p) for a shared taxi from Sapanta to Sighet, a distance of eight or nine miles and there met Kevin who had driven up fro...

I took a taxi from Satu Mare to Sapanta. It took an hour and a half, the way was beautiful and it cost RON 200 which is just over EUR 40. ...

The TV says it will be 38º Celsius in the shade in Bucharest today, which is 100º - and 50º in the sun, which is 122º. The Maramures where...

Last night we heard that many of the Yezidis had been enabled to escape from the mountaintop where they were corralled by US and Kurdish fe...

I don't know if the Prophet Mohammed, who was certainly a warlord, was an Islamist. That is the great philosophical question of our day...

The terrible news of the Yezidis threatened with death today by ISIS, if they do not convert to Islam, deserves I feel to be given as much...

When I was growing up in the 1970s and at university and then at work in the 1980s, I made the great mistake of thinking that the great per...

I have loved things Arthurian since earliest boyhood. (Robin Hood, on the other hand always left me completely cold, which perhaps suggests...

I am not following Gaza much and I do not claim to be an expert. I had assumed that Israel had no choice but to attack Gaza, but this artic...

This news is quite terrible and much worse than Gaza. Up to 40,000 Yazidis, adherents to one of the oldest religions in the world, are tra...

A nubile Israeli woman posts that she was 'near orgasm' hearing that the Israeli army had killed four children.   I found the post...

Sir Jonathan Miller says the BBC is now run by  “twerps who all have degrees in Media Studies, which is like having a degree in station...