A Political Refugee From The Global Village
An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms
Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Duchess of Sussex hopes to decolonise the curriculum
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From The Times: When the Duchess of Sussex visited City University in London on one of her first outings as patron of the Association of ...
What is the point of the Independent Group?
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I do not see what the now eight Labour MPs who have left their party hope or want to achieve. They all want a second referendum, but they w...
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Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Nothing is as old-fashioned as a future that has died
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Michael Heseltine, now Lord Heseltine, as minister for aerospace and shipping, poses with the supersonic Concorde in 1972. Concorde ...
Does discernment mean Catholics are liberal Protestants now?
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Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, S.J., the superior general of the Jesuits (the 'Black Pope') today made public the four main reference p...
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‘We Are The Resistance’
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These words are from an interesting article by Rod Dreher, who left the Catholic Church partly because of its sex scandals and joined the...
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Homosexual networks go back generations in the Catholic hierarchy
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From an important article by Rod Dreher: "Uncle Ted’s Family Tradition": '[Cardinal] Spellman’s homosexuality is no secret....
Monday, 18 February 2019
An Englishman in Pasajul Englez in the centre of Bucharest
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The English Passage in the centre of Bucharest looked very run down the 1980s too, but the artisans who used to have offices here a year ...
"The bad ones, they never die!”
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"The bad ones, they never die!” Pope Francis teased McCarrick when he saw him in 2014 This would be a harmless joke in normal circu...
Spain races against clock to dig up General Franco
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Headline in the Sunday Telegraph: Spain races against clock to dig up General Franco before snap elections I hate the Spanish left ...
A story that could destroy Pope Francis's papacy: Martel says Francis knew about McCarrick corrupting seminarians and considered it unimportant
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Pope Francis: The least serious sins are the sins of the flesh. According to Damien Thompson on Twitter, Frederic Martel's still emb...
I suppose Hell would be a world where Canada was the only superpower
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Canada as she was in 1980 would have been a fine superpower, though a very boring cultural hegemon. It is modern Canada that so depresses ...
Sunday, 17 February 2019
Even now the Neo-Cons' appetite for young men's blood is not sated
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Here is a beautifully written article in American Conservative by, of all people, Tucker Carlson from Fox News (who knew he wrote so ver...
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Pope Francis is McCarrick's protégé: “If he has two years, he will have changed the papacy"
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Monsignor Ferrari @ServizioVatican McCarrick's limping Christ pectoral at the Conclave which elected Francis, just about sums ev...
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Saturday, 16 February 2019
Bucharest scene
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Quotations
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"Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live ...
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Tweets
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8 hours ago Ambassador Johnson Verified account @USAmbUK 8h 8 hours ago More Roses are Red But they soon fade away...
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If Britain went back to free trade we should gain and the EU would lose a lot
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A very appealing possible Brexit, suggested by Liam Fox, would mean Britain leaving the EU with no customs deal and levying no tariffs on i...
Bernard-Henri Lévy laments the death of the West
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From a review in the Wall St Journal of ‘The Empire and the Five Kings’, the latest book by Bernard-Henri Lévy. ' ...Mr. Lévy used hi...
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From an article by Tom Slater in Spiked this week
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'As political scientist John Curtice has found , only nine per cent of voters now identity as a ‘very strong’ supporter of a political...
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
The Silence of Colonel Bramble by André Maurois
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'A gentleman is never in a hurry.' 'To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's ...
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