A Political Refugee From The Global Village

'Patriotism...is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs...

I have always been a Gaullist. The General wanted a "Europe des nations" and knew England would not be suitable to join the Comm...

So it's President Macron - 65%-35%. Marine Le Pen, of course, was never going to win. There was a very high turnout in the end, 75...

Namier once said something to the effect that there is a narrative that people respect an original thinker, but nothing could be further f...

The British Labour Party is essentially a 20th century (wrong) answer to a 19th century problem. Labour was always a mistake. The Libera...

A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre not of communism, as Marx proclaimed in 1848, but of fascism or the far right.  Spectre is the...

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'...