A Political Refugee From The Global Village

I thought of going to Iran but in the end I decided that the most interesting place to go, since I like holidaying in political hotspots, ...

I spent two days in Nice on my way to England to check out the reasons for the massacre there. There were several more killings by Muslims...

I spent two days in Nice on my way to England to check out the reasons for the massacre there. There were several more killings by Muslims...

Ulrike Guérot the "Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab", at the European School of Governance in Berlin, said in a...

I had dinner last night with a wonderful, young, idealistic Romanian lawyer who has been traumatised (really) by the decision of a country ...

I've always loved these lines by Praed, although I did not go to Eton. I wonder if David Cameron does and find them consoling now. ...

84 people have been killed in Nice by a lorry that late last night ploughed through crowds gathered for the Bastille Day celebrations. The ...

Mrs. May kissed hands yesterday and undertook to form a ministry. I wonder what the Queen thinks of her. The Queen couldn't bear M...

Overheard in the Athénée half an hour ago. (I hate calling it the Hilton.)  'How are things in Britain?'   'The middle cla...

The world before 23rd June has gone forever. Peter Oborne likens the referendum result to the Arab Spring. Curiously he means that in a ...

David Allen Green (@DavidAllenGreen): ESTRAGON: Well, shall we Leave? VLADIMIR: Yes, let's Leave. (They do not send the Article 50 No...

There can never be a democratic EU unless there is a demos and creating a demos out of 28 (27 now) disparate nations is extremely hard, pr...

Brexit is the biggest shock in my lifetime. I said to the Portuguese ambassador last week, talking about I forget what EU policy, '...

Gladstone said that all the world over he backed the masses against the classes (proof, incidentally, that he had a Northern accent). Nowad...

I am assuming that, should Remain triumph, there will be complaints from those who voted for it, within about six months along the lines of...

My sister just called me - to discuss the referendum. Like many people she hasn't made up her mind though I know her heart is Brexit. M...

The EU has, on balance, done much good in Eastern Europe, though harm too. Elsewhere since 1999 it has been on the whole a big disaster. Th...

I firmly expect Great Britain to vote to stay in the EU next Thursday, but let's all enjoy every single blissful moment of these halc...

The support in the opinion polls for Britain leaving the E.U. (exactly 50-50 these days) is the nearest the British have come to a revoluti...

England has never been more little than it is now, a subject province of someone else’s empire. Peter Hitchens The price of true freedom...