A Political Refugee From The Global Village

I didn't watch the hugely successful TV series of The Saint, which all my contemporaries loved, aetat 5, (I hope I wasn't even...

I am reading Gibbon at last.   I should be reading Gibbon in an 18th century edition in tooled leather in an armchair in a London club whil...

I am at last reading Robin Lane Fox's Pagans and Christians and finding it interesting and informative but   less of a joy than I expe...

Cartoon in today's Guardian greeting the appointment of the new Archbishop of Canterbury The Bishop of Durham, it was announced y...

Apparently John Wayne said: Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. My first reaction was n ot true - the reverse is th...

I regard women as superior and I don’t like to see them trying to become men’s equal. Violet Markham, speaking in October 1910. I am s...

The only lesson history teaches is that history teaches no lessons. A.J.P. Taylor AJP Taylor  was very Shavian and strove to speak...

Please to remember Fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. Tonight is Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night in England. It is t...

"The country is holding its breath today," read  The   Times . “Tension and nerves will be felt by millions who know that th...

What is Jacobinism?  It is an attempt . . . to eradicate prejudice out of the minds of men, for the purpose of putting all power and au...

An interesting article in the current edition of  Forbes Magazine, on the ability of psychopaths to read people.  Ironically, bo...

This sort of thing makes up my mind for me. Yes, even though Mr. Obama saved General Motors, I do want Mitt Romney to win.  The people wh...

I have loved this coin since I was a little boy. I saw it in the British Museum as a child. SO beautiful. Interesting that under th...

Is  Hurricane Sandy 'God's revenge for the refusal of the US government to take action on the climate crisis'? Or because Mi...

Vampires do exist. They are called psychopaths or sociopaths (the words are interchangeable) and are in a true sense the undead. They appe...