A Political Refugee From The Global Village

“ After more than 70 years of peace, at least in Europe and with growing prosperity, this crisis could not have hit us any more unprepared. ...

I posted a very uncharitable attack on the egregious Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and intended to link to a very uncharitable and very just at...

Lord Curzon said that without India England would be a greater Belgium. A greater Belgium sounds to me very like modern Europe. Julie Burch...

Douglas Murray beautifully expresses in this essay his very justified loathing and contempt for Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. I foolishly was ...

The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is an American free-market think tank with its office in Great Barrington, Massachusetts...

"That lockdowns cause more harm then good was well known since end of March ( https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.28.200367...

Most people nowadays no longer live in villages, towns or cities but on the internet.  On the internet nations are an abstract idea. Some st...

Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each r...

Laura Kipnes Sure, there have always been offended people, but those people used to be conservatives. Who cared if they were offended, that ...

'Die Zeit newspaper's Alan Posener said that “if the British were still EU citizens, they would be like us: instead of having vaccin...

Nabokov said as soon as you have finished a novel you should immediately reread it. I am sure he is right. But I find it almost impossible t...

It’s incredibly important to reread. Nabokov said as soon as you have finished a novel you should reread it. But I find it almost impossible...

Asian Flu emerged in China early in 1957 and spread  by September to the UK, where doctors were “amazed at the extraordinary infectivity of ...

The  Romanian government chose not to impose another lockdown after the one that ended in May and the economy outperformed the rest of the E...

I keep saying that Boris Johnson is not Donald Trump but Hillary Clinton in drag, if you can imagine her with eloquence, a sense of humour a...

The best thing I read recently about the pandemic is this article about Sweden from Spiked. It seems to me pretty much to prove that Sweden...

I left Facebook and will leave Twitter tomorrow for Lent and perhaps for good. Today I got my first suspension from social media, for twelve...

More than 70% of people who died with Covid-19 in Sweden, up to the middle of May 2020, were people in elderly care institutions. This is a...

  Britons think facing up to ten years in jail for lying on a passenger locator form in order to avoid quarantine is... Too harsh - 30% Abo...

A lot more people died in Sweden of Covid-19 than I had hoped and expected last spring. Much of the much higher death toll than in Norway wa...