A Political Refugee From The Global Village

I do hope the British Foreign Secretary summons the Luxembourg Ambassador for an explanation and does not invite him to sit down. I suppo...

The broadcaster David Dimbleby covered the results of the referendum and tried not to show how badly he took it. Today he is covering the S...

I almost never despise anyone but I despise Theresa May, for so many reasons. The least of those is that, instead of broadcasting to the na...

American Christopher Caldwell is the best political analyst writing today. His latest  article on Brexit  is very good.  These quotations...

David Cameron may be a uxorious man. At any rate, the two most disastrous follies in his six years in power were the fault of his wife. She...

Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan Everyone agrees that David Cameron made a terrible blunder by holding a refer...

Undergraduates and graduates at Boris Johnson's college Balliol are organising a petition to ban him from his old college, because he p...

Another quotation from David Cameron's interview published in the Times last night. "I think the issue of immigration plus that ...

Richard Ekins, Professor of Law at Oxford, is appalled by the Court of Sessions' decision yesterday and demolishes it in the Spectator ...

The British political crisis lurches on. Boris Johnson is already fighting an election campaign which consists of promising to take the...

In a big surprise the Court of Session in Edinburgh has ruled that proroguing Parliament was unlawful. We don't know the full read...

I read stories everywhere about Mugabe being a hero who went wrong. Peter Hain is one person purveying this false idea.  Mugabe was no...

I was delighted to discover that The Week in Westminster is still running on BBC Radio Four. Apparently it is the fifth longest-running ra...

According to The Times, in a film made by the BBC to be used in schools to teach 9-12 year-olds the personal, social and health education (...

Sir, Daniel Finkelstein (Comment, Sep 4, and letters, Sep 5), while agreeing that the Leave vote should be honoured, writes that “it’s a le...

Eccles @BruvverEccles · 4h Cameron is a swot and a gurly who sa "hello clouds, ...

In a big surprise the Court of Session in Edinburgh has ruled that proroguing Parliament was unlawful. "The Lord President, Lord Carl...