A Political Refugee From The Global Village

'If the EU has – for whatever reasons - decided that it’s time to treat Britain like the captive in a Stephen King novel, isn’t it b...

Ruth Dudley Edwards , who has written many detective stories that are really satires, told me the other night it is impossible to write sat...

“Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click I agree.” Eyden I., ...

The Gatwick drone, which stopped flights from Gatwick airport for days, is as real as the St. Osyth lion or the woman hitchhiker with hair ...

The hard part is obviously still to come whether something like Mrs May's plan goes ahead or even if it doesn't. The deal settles l...

Has Trump governed erratically? Yes, that’s a fair description. It’s partly because as a non-politician he arrived in Washington without...

From a great article in, of all unexpected places, The Financial Times , by  Merryn Somerset Webb, who normally writes about personal fina...

Just as a matter of curiosity, could any responsible government really give a categorical assurance that under no circumstances would ther...

Great Britain should not have used Article 50 or negotiated about our divorce bill but vetoed every EU measure we could veto till they gave...

I was praying so hard that Tory MPs got rid of Theresa May, but like a killer zombie she seems dead but indestructible. She won by 200 v...

The Pew Research Center revealed in a report published on Wednesday that Romania is the most religious nation in Europe, judged by four cr...

Terry Eagleton reviewing 'Seven Types of Atheism' by John Gray. I think this is obvious nowadays. The  whole review  is here. ...

Daniel Cohn-Bendit - Danny the Red - is the man of 1968, the Parisian revolutionary, whose name everyone remembers. Even I do and I was onl...

A Russian British comedian who voted Remain explains how angry he is that British people think leave voters are xenophobes and explains why...

The New York Times has a lovely and inspiring story about the famous 1980s party girl Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis (b. 1960) and he...

Generalisations are aphorisms. We need more of them. Gibbon, Macaulay, Addison, all good writers until our decadent modern age traded in th...

Germany's biggest newspaper, Bild , reported that a 60-page guide Ene, Mene, Muh – And You’re Out! has been issued to help kindergar...

Allister Heath in today's Daily Telegraph : Both sides have been terrifyingly naïve. Brexiteers thought they understood the rules: y...

"Love for one’s people is as natural as love for one’s family. No one can be faulted for this love, only respected. After all, no mat...

"The freedom to which modern man aspires is not that of the free man, but that of the slave on his day off." Nicolás Gómez Dávil...