A Political Refugee From The Global Village

Poles and Swedes partitioned Ukraine 100 years before Poland was partitioned by Prussia, Russia and Austria, but nobody talks about that. L...

"The world is trying to experiment with attempting to form a civilised but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail, but we...

Yascha Mounk is a German in his mid-30s who is a Lecturer on Political Theory at Harvard and describes himself on his website as "one ...

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - Francois de La Roche...

The history of Eastern Europe is a series of national or ethnic conflicts, one on top of another. Galicia, now Western Ukraine, which came...

Lenin considered himself and was always considered Russian, but he was not an ethnic Russian. Lenin's father was half Chuvash and half ...

"Hayek sees that the zero-sum vision is fired by an implacable negative energy. It is not the concrete vision of some real alternati...

Macaulay disapproved of Napier's History of the Peninsular War because he   disapproved of military history . He thought it immoral to ...

John F. Kennedy, aged 28, wrote these words in his diary on holiday in Germany in the summer of 1945, after visiting the Berchtesgaden and ...

Reading War and Peace intermittently and lackadaisically took up almost two years, not because it is dull but because it is hard to read w...

[I collected them in the dear bygone time before the internet made finding quotations easy. I wonder where I found them. I suppose I just r...

I kept commonplace books of quotations in the months between going down from university and starting work. Five thick ones, A4 sized. I int...

The investigation into whether Trump colluded with Russia to help him win the election - spoiler alert: he didn't - is for me very bori...

The Guardian is very disappointed that retired General John Kelly, Donald Trump's Chief of Staff, is not 'restraining' the pres...

The UK needs Michael Howard to come back to the Commons and form a government. No one else has the stature political skills and is Leave. A...

A lot of nonsense in the press today about Suffragettes. I am sorry to see allegedly Conservative politicians like Mrs. May and the unspeak...

The Great MacDermott's song was the big hit of 1877, as Britain geared up to go to war to defend Turkey from Russia in the Balkans. Her...

The reason people who want UK to leave the EU do so is that they don't want to be ruled by foreigners. This way of thinking is permitte...

‘The perils of change are so great, the promise of the most hopeful theories is so often deceptive, that it is frequently the wiser part to...

Bill Ayers who co-founded the Weathermen, a communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings, spent the...