A Political Refugee From The Global Village

Theresa May wastes British taxpayers'  money attending things like the G20 summit when she is no longer the British leader. Had she res...

Back to my home town, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, decades after leaving. Southend now has a small and human scale international airport, w...

I always liked Kenneth Clarke and am reading his autobiography. I was interested to learn that he was a working class Nottinghamshire boy. ...

'It may be said, however, that even if the theoretical book-trained Socialist is not a working man himself, at least he is actuated by ...

As I predicted, the Tory leadership contest is a disaster, wasting time, dividing the party badly and forcing Boris to adopt positions whic...

The only knowledge of psychology that a historian needs is that all men seek power.  It is not quite true (the eighth Duke of Devonshire ...

Life is short and we all have a lot of things to do. Even if you are interested in politics, there are a lot of things to read. However, th...

An argument with his girlfriend over some wine he spilt on her white sofa seems an insubstantial reason for thinking Boris Johnson unfit f...

“One can never successfully lie to a fiction writer, because we know all about making things up.” William Trevor "People are of immens...

If they have any sense, which they have, Team Boris will lend votes to Mr. Javid or Mr.  Hunt, equally useless politicians, to make sure th...

Rory Stewart, the Tory candidate that people who are not Tories like, is out.  He was very impressive, but the joke had worn thin. ...

"Think of it as Westminster’s answer to the World Cup third-place play-off." (Charlie Cooper in Politico) The mainstream media ...

In the 1980s I detested Margaret Thatcher and in the 1990s disliked the Thatcherites. That's why I sort of accepted John Major's ar...

Boris seems overwhelmingly the choice of Tory MPs, winning the votes of 141 MPs. Jeremy Hunt, a Remainer who has flip-flopped so many time...

I remember that when one nobleman and politician died in the period before 1914, another peer praised him for his faithfulness 'to his ...

An interesting article in the Catholic Herald says that, well into the reign of Pope St John XXIII, the Vatican's official newspaper, ...

"I’ve had the impression for months now that the main interest of British politicians was to find a way to replace Theresa May, not to...

"Although no-deal is now the only realistic way to deliver a proper Brexit, British politics has become so warped that even success r...

The Lancet is perhaps the world's most authoritative  general medical journal . It informs doctors of medical developments but now it h...

“A person's life isn't orderly ...it runs about all over the place, in and out through time. The present's hardly there; the fu...