A Political Refugee From The Global Village

  The House of the People constructed by Nicolai Ceausescu goes as far into the earth as it rises above it. Its construction was part of a r...

The Chinese artist is interviewed in the Telegraph and says some interesting things. 'He picks out China’s zero-Covid policy as an exam...

 

I would not have bought and started Tom Bower's biography of Boris Johnson 'The Gambler' had I read the bad reviews.  It's m...

The New Church of St George at the end of my street on a cold, bright day. We are having a very mild winter, by the way - it makes me wonder...

Timothy Stanley, conservative and convert to Catholicism, talking about the Ukraine crisis in the Daily Telegraph today. "The West be...

Paul Gottfried observed that for the neo-cons it is always 1938. The Churchillian mythology of the origins of the Second World War is a powe...

 

It is the left who are full of hatred and always were. Even racists (there are lots in Romania) probably do not really hate people but anti ...

 

  What liberal or former liberal would want to find themselves in an ideological movement in which opposition to the right to abortion, oppo...

Almost all criminals are right-wing conservatives. The exception are serial killers who are quite often left of centre and take the Guardian...

Countries like people can go mad. America is having a nervous breakdown and infecting the rest of the Western world. Russia and China are im...

I watched Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday. The leader of Her Majesty's Opposition Sir Keir Starmer was no good - he told two...

Deaths from all causes in England and Wales from 28 December 2019 to 7 January 2022 were below the five-year average. (Thank goodness the B...

Damian Thompson, former editor of the Catholic Herald in London, wonders if China pays the Vatican and this is why the Pope cooperates with ...

 

Headline in the Daily Mail: How Beijing uses its billions to buy political influence around the world I asked myself if China gives money to...