A Political Refugee From The Global Village

As I grow older the one thing I like talking about is history and the people to whom I most like talking are historians.  I had lunch yester...

The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills... The reactionary does not asp...

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain Healthy precautionary principle alarmism...

“I KNEW a man once that was given to drinking, and I made up this rule for him to distinguish between Bacchus and the Devil. To wit: that he...

Chinese companies, according to an article in Bloomberg , now supply three quarters of the world’s solar panels.  China "now makes most...

'The forest kept shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe. For the axe was clever and convinced them that since his handle was wo...

This news story is about the UK and Brexit but it's an example of how every country in Western Europe is moving from being an essentiall...

Forty years ago mono-ethnic, Lutheran Sweden had very few murders but this has changed, according to an article in the Economist today. ...

Leopold Tyrmand wrote this of the USA in 1975. He was a Polish satirist who emigrated to the U.S. in 1966. "With a power to create some...

"It may be difficult to define civilisation, but it isn’t so difficult to recognise barbarism." Sir Kenneth Clark "Today we c...

Marriage is a perpetual exercise of mortification. St. Francis de Sales There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, an...

The photograph above was taken in May of this year in Bad Schandau, in the heart of the flooded region. It shows the height of various flood...

I think nothing is more dispiriting than the phrase 'inspirational quotes'. This is, I suppose, because I am English and not America...

"[Europe] came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance." Evelyn Waugh ...

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard Listen, people, Susarion has this to say, the son of...

Kevin asked me if I were blogging about our trip this weekend, and so I felt I'd better. It's very hot here, and very quiet, there a...

The death of Donald Rumsfeld this week reminds us of how much irremediable harm incompetent politicians can do. The evil that men do lives o...

"The modern EU is a free-floating self-interested structure, unmoored from any national political culture that might hold it to account...

The UK "will probably be out of the EU by 2020",  Paul Nuttall, Nigel Farage's deputy , in March 2015. "If we see that Ge...

I missed these stories. Did you? This month Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin “President Trump” and in March called his own Vice President “Pr...