A Political Refugee From The Global Village

According to John Hooper, the Basques are the oldest race in Europe and so old are they that some have speculated that they might be descen...

Admitting a million Poles, even though in good manners, industry, church attendance and many other ways they put many of the British to sha...

"Les savants ne sont pas curieux" (Anatole France) Very good news! The earth was warmer in Roman and mediaeval times, accordin...

The Sunday Telegraph today says that at Nelson Mandela's interminable funeral Tony Blair introduced Romanian Prime Minister Victor Pon...

The greatest Englishman after William Shakespeare, died on this day in 1784. I used to have a copy of a print of this hanging in my house i...

I supposed they would put Nelson Mandela on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, which seems to me absurd. I would give it to Jacques Chir...

I want to reread Squire Haggard's Journal which I found precis-ed thus by Amazon :  Haggard's typical entries begin with some n...

I was a very bookish child and my parents worried that I would live life at second-hand. I wonder if I did. Anyhow, when I was fourteen o...

I met a very nice Hungarian in Mercurea Ciuc who told me his two names were both Hungarian warrior names (one was Levente, the other I forg...

Bucharest used to be mostly shops like this fifteen years ago. I have watched the advance of progress here with dismay. Acknowledgements to...

Oddly, a couple of hours after seeing this picture on the Bucharest Realist Facebook page and hearing of Pasajul Englez, I accidentally...

"I've come here more times as prime minister than I've been anywhere other than Belgium."  - David Cameron , New Delhi ...

I'm beginning to get bored with reading about Islam in the news every day. Do others feel this way? Interesting though the subject was ...

I just found this quotation from Mircea Eliade. This is probably from his semi-fascist early phase but still it is good. “Until recently ...

"Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in moulding life than nationalism or a common language....

On October 1, four candidates to be Archbishop of Uppsala, the highest position in the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden, were interviewed by chu...

I wish Libya, Egypt and Iraq were still pro-British monarchies and I think Eisenhower's sabotage of the UK over the Suez intervention i...

The short answer is yes, of course. The quotations and the books show a man comparable to the Pitts, Fox, Disraeli or Dr. Johnson. He was a...

Which is the funniest book of all time in your opinion?  It might be Decline and Fall, Scoop or A Handful of Dust but it might be thi...

Hallowe'en is an ancient Catholic tradition but now just an excuse to make money and for American cultural imperialism. But whatever yo...