A Political Refugee From The Global Village

An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Quotations from Lord Salisbury

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[For Salisbury's thoughts on Romania, click here .] No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you...
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Saturday, 17 June 2017

Quotations

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Bror Duktig‏ @nijinskyforever Lefties want "Day of Rage" "Shut down London" "Bring down the Government" But w...
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Thursday, 15 June 2017

The revolution turned out, when it came, to be Islamist

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"Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing ...
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Wednesday, 7 June 2017

The best political quotes from the last three or four days

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Mark Steyn: The reality of what is happening in Britain and Europe is that this problem was imported and that, until you stop importing it...
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Falling birth rates mean the end of the West - Lord Sacks

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“Europe is going to die because of this because Europe can only maintain its population by unprecedented levels of immigration. “Now those ...
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Wednesday, 10 May 2017

Patriotism, the love that dare not speak its name

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'Patriotism...is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs...
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Monday, 8 May 2017

De Gaulle would have opposed immigration and the modern EU

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I have always been a Gaullist. The General wanted a "Europe des nations" and knew England would not be suitable to join the Comm...
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Sunday, 7 May 2017

The future of France is Lebanese

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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...
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Historians, like women, are attracted to power

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Namier once said something to the effect that there is a narrative that people respect an original thinker, but nothing could be further f...
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Tuesday, 2 May 2017

Labour since 1900 has achieved nothing really

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The British Labour Party is essentially a 20th century (wrong) answer to a 19th century problem. Labour was always a mistake. The Libera...
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A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of fascism

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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...
Monday, 24 April 2017

Bernard Lewis: Will the future see an Islamised Europe or a European Islam?

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In 2010 the greatest historian of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis, predicted that by the end of the decade Iran would abandon political Isla...
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Sunday, 23 April 2017

Macron will be President of France

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French exit poll result: Macron - 23% Le Pen - 23% Fillon - 19% Melenchon - 19% The Gaullist Fillon might have been a good President, despi...
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Saturday, 22 April 2017

Why should Great Britain or America fight for the Sunnis?

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Obviously, the USA and UK should never have invaded Iraq. They should have launched a short punitive expedition into Afghanistan in 2001,...
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Friday, 21 April 2017

Will there always be an England, Europe or America, whatever the origin of their inhabitants?

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But today, France’s most read and most discussed popular writers—novelists and political essayists—are conservatives of one stripe or anot...
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Tuesday, 18 April 2017

The best comment on Brexit I've seen

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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...
Thursday, 13 April 2017

1O pieces of advice

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I don't like work — no man does — but I like what is in work — the chance to find yourself. Joseph Conrad
Sunday, 9 April 2017

What people said this weekend

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Peter Hitchens ‏ Verified account   @ClarkeMicah     15 seconds ago More Must sign off now. But amazed by liberal left. Don...
Saturday, 8 April 2017

Has Donald Trump been turned? Not necessarily

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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...
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Sunday, 2 April 2017

Christopher Caldwell Tells Us How to Think About Vladimir Putin

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