A Political Refugee From The Global Village

“It was a misjudgment which I regret, but it’s been a privilege to bring the news to households throughout the UK for the past 40 year...

"You can have an affection for a murderer or a sodomite, but you cannot have an affection for a man whose breath stinks - habitually s...

'The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman [Horace Walpole] has, with such spirit and decency, charged u...

When I was lucky enough to come to Eastern Europe for the first time in January 1990, I congratulated myself on my cleverness for buying a ...

"It’s not a coincidence that two of the institutions that not only inspire public affection but are seen to define British identity ar...

Commentators have often speculated on whom Putin was grooming as his successor. We now have the answer: no one. And this is a wise approac...

From The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 by Sir Richard Evans. Without having read him I was very prejudiced against him indeed, but I ...

'From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged ...

A footnote to the history of our times.

While I am on the subject of city versus country, an article in this week's edition of Der Spiegel talks about the city-countryside sp...

[England] 'doesn't have a sense of itself as a nation to be transformed and is divided between the vibrant, youthful and pro-Europ...

'The people who used to run the country and those who thought they had some influence over how it was run are angry, confused and resen...

Another aphorism.

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns a lesson he can learn in no other way.” Mark Twain “We should try to be the parents of our fu...

"Brexit will alter Britain irrevocably. Any project that presupposes close alignment with the EU – such as Scottish independence – b...

A quotation from a new book, The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite,   by an American, Professor Michael Lind of t...

'The market-based legal order of the Brussels bureaucracy helped to fill the legal vacuum created by communism, and was warmly received...

'Woman is born free but is everywhere in chain stores.' This is the line to a Spectator cartoon of thirty years ago - would it be...

The right way to live is by enjoying one's faculties, striving to like and if possible to love one's fellows, and also to accept t...

Bernie Sanders shocked his supporters in 2016 by pointing out that a country exists for the benefit of the people in it. This is from an in...