A Political Refugee From The Global Village

  The new cathedral, next to the biggest building in Europe. Antim monastery. Cismigiu Park and the city hall, seen obliquely.

 

Scott Ritter, the American weapons inspector who told the world, before the US invasion, that there were no WMD in Iraq, has stopped thinkin...

The church is not far from the bottom of Calea Victoriei, south of the river. I took the picture around 7 tonight in the lovely evening ligh...

Lee Marvin - One of the good things about getting older is that you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet. Seen ...

George W. Bush, speaking in Dallas yesterday, described the invasion of Iraq as "brutal" and "unjustified" before correc...

Queen Elizabeth II opened the Elizabeth underground line at Paddington Station in London, the day before yesterday. How lucky England is not...

I asked the taxi driver who drove me home last night what he thought about Ukraine.  He said it was half the fault of Russia and half the fa...

During an interview to plug a book two weeks ago, Bill Gates, who has been a noisy Covid alarmist, said this of Covid.  “We didn’t understan...

" We think Putin and Gerasimov are involved in tactical decision making at a level we would normally expect to be taken by a colonel or...

"For my part, I've always considered feminists to be amiable dimwits, harmless in principle, but unfortunately made dangerous by th...

I couldn't see the date of the Sky News Australia interview with Colonel Richard Kemp to which I linked, a couple of days ago, but in ye...

Divine liturgy at the tiny Greek Catholic cathedral of St Basil the Great in Str. Polona. Women don't cover their heads any more, despit...

Almost everyone in Portugal has been vaccinated and the country has one of the highest rates of Covid cases in the world.  The jab doesn'...

Patrick Cockburn is the son of Claud Cockburn, the British Communist journalist, whose saying "believe nothing until it has been offici...

"I just want to see the universities closed down, except for Oxford and Cambridge. I think they have all been a terrible mistake."...

Colonel Kemp thinks the British media mostly simply repeats Ukrainian propaganda and the Russians will probably take eastern Ukraine and th...

 

In individuals, insanity is relatively rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Nietzsche

"Britain’s newly active role is confirming the view of the Cambridge international relations specialist Professor Brendan Simms that Br...

Lichtenberg said: "A book is like a mirror: if a monkey looks at it, he sees himself reflected, not an apostle. We have no words to spe...

That cartoon is from today's Times. Nobody over dinner on Wednesday thought Biden was to blame for diplomatic ineptitude that led Russia...

May evening, Calea Șerban Vodă, walking home from Dr Andy Taylor's book launch, where I tossed and gored two professors who pontificated...

Illegal immigrants are the only invasion threat. The Russian soldiery are illegal immigrants in the Ukraine.

 

TWO VERSIONS OF SELF-LOATHING 1. The kind Douglas Murray rightly rails against - hating your own culture and history 2. The conservative’s l...

 

I lived 200 yards from the well known St George's New Church since the turn of the century but only recently discovered the nearby and w...

 

 

 

  Quotations from Henry Kissinger in an interview  in yesterday's FT. In principle, the [Sino-Russian] alliance is against vested inter...

' Failure is not the only penalty for sloth. There is also the success of one's friends.'

Facebook tells me that I posted this 10 May 2016. I'm not a conservative in the Thatcher Reagan sense, though I have come to see their g...

'To me women are like elephants. I love elephants very much, but I don't want to have one.'  I am quoting some Frenchman. The ne...

Lord Moore wants regime change in Moscow and so he hints does Sir Andrew Wood. So do I, but we should discard that idea and hope for a negot...

Here  Sir Andrew Wood former ambassador to Moscow, two days ago, Peter Ford formerly our man in Damascus  here  on 26 February, when he and ...

  Coffee in the morning is the best part of life, to people like me who prefer the potential to the actual and the Platonic essence to the e...

This is the part of Bucharest that narrowly escaped destruction in the redevelopment inspired by Pyongyang. Don't forget that Ceaușescu&...

"Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't s...

Australia's departing High Commissioner [ambassador] in London says,  in an interview , that the British civil service detests Brexit an...