A Political Refugee From The Global Village

Great quote from Howard Jacobson in The Independent with which I think history may agree:  'What if the Lost Decade is not what we ...

‎"From the concept of habeas corpus to the BBC, to Elizabethan poetry to John Le Carre, from rock to the invention of the Sixties, from...

This macabre song often runs through my head. It was written at a time when "The year of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three" ...

‎'All that a man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love -- and to s...

Friendship, “the wine of life,” should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we...

Interesting point from a note I was sent by Plamen Monovski, CIO of Renaissance Asset Managers The richer the society, the more it...

I periodically remember a Spectator cartoon in 1989 of the Prince of Wales (who had admitted he talked to his plants) with hands behind his ...

Malcom Muggeridge once asked  "Wouldn't it be a dreary story if all there was to existence was that primoridial slime somehow turne...

A thought-provoking quote from Livy's "History of Rome": "I would have [the reader] trace the process of our moral declin...

I started writing a book called Imperialism when I was 7. I still have it complete with many maps. It did not win the prize which went to a ...

I learnt today that Sunday was St Edmund's Day.  My patron saint and I did not know. I had forgotten that he was patron saint of England...

A Congolese telling the BBC this morning how much better things were under colonialism. He brushed aside the BBC man's objection that th...

The Fry Chronicles                                            Stephen Fry When the Lights Went Out                                  Andy ...

Himmler's postcards to his mother were auctioned this week and reveal him to be a mother's boy. Richard Westwood-Brookes, of Mul...

Roger Scruton said this speaking to the teenage Daniel Hannan. But Scruton does not seem to me a true conservative. He opposes immigration c...

Amanda Craig reviews Martin Amis: The Biography, By Richard Bradford and discovers Amis minor is to be pitied.   http://www.independent.c...

In the 80s I deplored the loss of traditional England but now it seems indistinguishable from the Edwardian age. Pretty Tory secretaries d...

Style?  "When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun, that was style. Or sometimes people give you style Joan of Arc ha...

Headline in the Daily Mail: Non, we no speak your lingo: Two in three Britons cannot speak a SINGLE foreign word A fifth don't even kno...

‎ Dr. Johnson said, "You may translate books of science exactly. You may also translate history, in so far as it is not embellished ...