A Political Refugee From The Global Village

When Sigmund Freud was asked how we can achieve happiness he said two things were necessary: the ability to love and the ability to work. A...

As Metternich said when he heard of Talleyrand's death,  "What did he mean by that?"

Why were the opinion polls in the Romanian election so very wrong, with one exception giving Victor Ponta the PSD (Social Democratic Party)...

Dr. Johnson said that  “There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. ” Christopher Hollis s...

The trade unions did enormous amount of damage to Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. We now know that in the 1970s the two most powerful and ...

I am proud of a line I coined many years ago Romania is the Orient dreaming that she is France and repeated it to a British diplomat fri...

One more comment on the Romanian presidential election. Psychopaths have a very strong  urge to reproduce but  I'm certainly not sayi...

Perhaps because it is Advent, in a very Christian spirit Sorin Ovidiu Vintu and Prime Minster Victor Ponta have publicly acknowledged their...

A very interesting story in the New York Times suggests that Russian money was behind the anti-fracking protests in Romania. It sounds ext...

People without imagination should pursue well paid careers. For them money supplies poetry. Robert Graves was told by his publisher T...

According to an article in yesterday's  Financial Times ,  After employment controls were lifted in January, the number of  Romania...

If so, you are probably too old to wear jeans.

The name Howard means hog-herd. The Duke of Norfok's ancestor when surnames were given out was one.

I still PASSIONATELY believe Plebgate should be called Gategate.

I just had coffee with a  very prosperous Scottish auditor. We were discussing Scotland and he joked that it was the kind of undeveloped co...

Somebody in the South Thanet constituency association of UKIP referred on Twitter to a photograph of Westminster Cathedral as a mosque . Th...

Another list of cities you should visit just swam into my ken. Making lists is a sublimation of the instinct to be a womaniser. Or manis...

I walk past this house every day. Half the houses in the centre of Bucharest are like this. The Romantic fascination with decay is what mad...

The friend I stayed with in Iraq just told me that I crossed the Euphrates, the day we went to  Lalish , the Yazidi shrine . Why didn't...