A Political Refugee From The Global Village

In 2010 the greatest historian of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis, predicted that by the end of the decade Iran would abandon political Isla...

French exit poll result: Macron - 23% Le Pen - 23% Fillon - 19% Melenchon - 19% The Gaullist Fillon might have been a good President, despi...

Obviously, the USA and UK should never have invaded Iraq. They should have launched a short punitive expedition into Afghanistan in 2001,...

But today, France’s most read and most discussed popular writers—novelists and political essayists—are conservatives of one stripe or anot...

I voted for the principle of national sovereignty and I expect to suffer for this choice. You do know there have been actual *wars* of ind...

I don't like work — no man does — but I like what is in work — the chance to find yourself. Joseph Conrad

Peter Hitchens ‏ Verified account   @ClarkeMicah     15 seconds ago More Must sign off now. But amazed by liberal left. Don...

On Thursday night there were a lot of interesting news stories.  A h orrible story about the use of chemical weapons in Syria. 17 suicide...

Christopher Caldwell is the most interesting journalist I read. Do read this talk he recently gave, gentle reader.  'Yet if we were ...

A mixed bag of quotations today. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. ...

  Vacillating instincts, corroded beliefs, obsessions, and anility: everywhere conquerors in retreat, rentiers of heroism confronting the y...

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and t...

A week ago sunny weather arrived in time for Mărţişor. Time to walk hatless and scarfless along Calea Victoriei in the spring sunshine. Rom...

If I am to manage to continue reading books I probably have to give up fiction. Having taken almost two years with 'War and Peace'...

That in woman which inspires respect and fundamentally fear is her nature, which is more ‘natural’ than that of man, her genuine, cunning, ...

.....MRS. KNOWLES. 'I cannot agree with him, that friendship is not a Christian virtue.' JOHNSON. 'Why, Madam, strictly speaki...

My article on the three worst US Presidents  (George W. Bush,  Lincoln  and Wilson were my choices)  seems rather topical now that Donald T...

Today H.M. Queen Elizabeth II has reigned for 65 years, the longest reign in British history and longer by a few months even than the reign...

I started this blog to write about Romania but other things happened instead. Recently Donald Trump happened. I even failed to blog ...

It's been three centuries since you could be prosecuted for theological opinions in Scotland but you can now and in the rest of the UK....