A Political Refugee From The Global Village

‘…When I speak of Knowledge, I mean something intellectual, something which grasps what it perceives through the senses; something which t...

Battle Beagle ‏   @HarmlessYardDog   21 hours ago More Knife Crimes in 2016 London : 21,365 All of Poland: 3,474

'One cannot love lumps of flesh, and little infants are nothing more.' Dr. Johnson 'If women didn't exist, all the money i...

“Life is like the big wheel at Luna Park. You pay five francs and go into a room with tiers of seats all around, and in the centre the floo...

Ruskin said he was a Tory of the old school, the school of Homer and Sir Walter Scott. Homer I agree on. I don't care much for the over...

Ronald Reagan in the 1980s described universities as islands of totalitarianism in a sea of freedom.

If Wikipedia is to be trusted the Austrian Freedom Party is not far right at all. SInce being founded in 1955 it seems to have combined b...

“For me dying is a lot like going camping. I don’t want to do it.” Phil Wang  “Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing...

I suspect Sir Oswald Mosley had Sabrina in mind when he said 'In or around 1955 the British discovered sex and instantly made it ridicu...

"The souls that never go to confession are like rooms with closed windows, which never get any fresh air in." (Octavian Goga) ...

In this article from the BBC site a famous Catalan writer is prosing on about the crisis when he suddenly says Do we have an identity? I...

"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually cru...

7 10 2017

We very easily imagine Theresa May squirming, as she squirmed in her interview with Andrew Marr on Sunday. She is not nearly as clever ...

I just learnt that Groucho Marx climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of Adolf Hitler's bunker, the site of Hitler's death,...

You might be interested by this article ,  Why the West  Can’t Unite Against Terrorism , written by Richard Storey, who thinks Eastern Eur...

Dan Hodges today: Donald Trump is a lunatic. A big lunatic. An ocean going lunatic. Neagu Djuvara to me last year: Trump is a bull and a bu...

“I see that you have made three spelling mistakes,” remarked the Marquis de Favras when he read his death warrant. Coming across that quota...

I bought a leather bound copy of Mill's On Liberty for 50p when I was 16 and haven't read it. I assumed I knew what it said and th...