A Political Refugee From The Global Village

I agree with this by Charles Moore in the Telegraph today.   'People are a bit puzzled about what “levelling up” is. Given the desire o...

More here of   This Godless Communism, with a foreword by J. Edgar Hoover, from  Treasure Chest , which was published and distributed in Ca...

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants ...

If you have read Mervyn Peake's novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast do you see a resemblance between the evil ex-scullion Steerpike who p...

I wish all my Catholic and Protestant readers Happy Easter! The Orthodox have a full month to wait this year. The Jesus Seminar, a group of ...

“ 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. ...

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

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

George Orwell in 1984. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue a...

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...

'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...