A Political Refugee From The Global Village

Tashkent is not dour if you lived twenty years in Bucharest but it has no heart. Though a city of four million people, once the largest in...

The border between Northern and Southern Ireland and whether it will have to become hard again if the UK leaves the European Economic Area ...

My friend Rupert Wolf-Murray has made the headlines in Romania by telling Associated Press that Cambridge Analytica approached him before R...

Historians used to have heroes and villains. Livy's hero was Scipio Africanus for good reasons, though Hannibal was too great to be a v...

I find this absolutely incredible. I knew standards at my middle class university had fallen (and the politics faculty was always made up o...

The other  day I agreed with  Daniel Hannan that  President Macron is the ultimate populist. I also said his far left opponent,  Jean-Luc M...

The old cohesive, blokish, laid back Australia has changed in many ways. The 1960s social revolution is working itself out there as much as...

'Free market capitalism cannot provide for everyone or sustain the natural world. Its very imperative is of ever hastening exploitatio...

"Whereas people of faith tend to accept the natural world, those who profess a material view often go to war with it. Such discontent ...

Macron is the ultimate populist. So said Daniel Hannan the other day. In many ways this is true.    He is up there with Napoleon III. ...

Professor James Newell of Salford University, in his latest posting in LSE blogs about the Italian election result, thinks that in Italy...

The global economic system, like NATO, was set up after the war by the U.S.A., with British help, to contain Soviet expansion.  Like sp...

I take back what I said about the LSE's blogs reflecting the sad lack of diversity of thought among academics, who are almost always le...

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment my choice of life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries that...

I picked up a second hand Penguin edition of Gryll Grange,  Th omas Love Peacock's last and mellowest novel from  1860, in a charity sh...

My nephew was taught at school in England that Lenin was an improvement on Tsar Nicholas II.  This article  on the complete failure of soci...

Has it ever been really noted to what extent a genuinely religious life requires a leisure class, or half-leisure—I mean leisure with a go...