A Political Refugee From The Global Village

When I studied this subject at university I thought American historians were not up to much compared with British ones. It does seem as if ...

I stayed three or four miles away from where this picture was taken, in the beach at Durres, a place which was empty coastline in 19...

Today was a really astonishing day which makes me feel I am living in a 19th century lithograph. This is, of course, the ideal for whic...

Only a fool goes to Greece or smartly-painted Croatia or Montenegro when, for a short time longer, the real thing exists in Albania. I dec...

I am in Lin, a tiny village on the Albanian shore of Lake Ohrid. It has one tiny hotel where village boys drink beer. It has four rooms on...

The Guardian used to me a much better newspaper years ago, when it was liberal in the true sense of the word liberal, before it became soc...

A Glass Of Red Wine Is The Equivalent To An Hour At The Gym, Says New Study This is a serious story in the press, I think. Click here ...

‎The habit of ignoring nature is deeply implanted in our times. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not f...

People who are angry with the dentist who shot the lion think they are being compassionate and don't realise that in many cases they ar...

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. Marquise de Sevigne If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not ...

The anguish all over the social media about Cecil, the popular lion who was shot dead in Zimbabwe with a bow and arrow by ...

Professor Paul Gottfried, the contrarian American political thinker, interests me. He said that, unlike England, with its essentially med...

I remember back in my first term at Cambridge studying US history noticing that American history unlike British history is largely mythic....

The Comte de Tilly said that to begin ones life by being raped is a very poor school for virtue. Slavery is a very poor school too and it...

In 1864, Confederate General Patrick Cleburne said that  if the South lost, It means that the history of this heroic struggle will be wr...

I often heard that Grant was the worst US President, or Buchanan or Andrew Johnson or Harding but none of these were the worst. The worst w...