A Political Refugee From The Global Village

I am indebted to my faithful reader Toma for this information.  The highest German court ruled last year that euthanasia was not unconstitut...

The decision by Austria to have another lockdown was a big surprise to me but it is, I suppose, what one should expect. Her decision to make...

Odd how expressions go out of fashion. I just said 'Homer nods' and realised I haven't said or heard it said for decades.  I als...

Aldous Huxley in 1946 predicted exactly how we live now. "There is, of course, no reason why the new totalitarianisms should resemble t...

A disaster often does much less harm than what you do in response to it. September 11 being the best example. Covid-19 looks like another ex...

The key Marxist idea that class drives history seems to be forgotten, except by the hard left, but the equally key idea that countries, nati...

The 1960s social revolution stems not from Paris in 1968 but from the American Civil Rights movement which was organised originally by Commu...

Seen on Facebook: Help me, I am trapped  In a haiku factory Save me, before they My favourite haiku by the Emperor Hirohito: We had intended...

 

I learnt some interesting things last night from reading a review of the second volume of the (almost) unexpurgated diaries of Anglo-Americ...

Thirty years ago in the summer of 1991 I went into the Jesuit Church in Farm St and talked to a priest on duty. He turned out to be a lovely...

In the 1980s Peking, as it was called, was full of cyclists and Copenhagen was full of cars. Now it's the other way around.  Danes are f...

The BBC is more unbearable than usual, propagandising about climate change. When did the media stop trying to report the news and begin tell...

What humbugs we are to say we live for beauty and never rise to see the dawn (Logan Pearsall Smith). Sir Roger Scruton, whom I almost spent ...

I hear about a lot of unvaccinated Romanians in their 40s and 50s dying of Covid-19.  Many people in Romania are understandably angry with p...

The end of the Cold War robbed the world of its only interesting thing. Bucharest's Cismigiu Park would have been a great place for a de...

   Cardinal Burke blesses David's rosary. The murder of poor David Amess has shaken me.  Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for t...