A Political Refugee From The Global Village

" But one thing is clear: This drama [Prigozhin's mutiny] ― with its incomplete ending ― openly displays the growing debate and dis...

Clever men explain why a ceasefire in Ukraine would not be a good idea. It would enable Russia to re-arm. (Ukraine is constantly being armed...

 

I regret ever watching the BBC News. I shall stop.  On Friday he third story in the headlines was that Tiktok was not keeping its promise to...

"But there is one part of getting old we’re not so good at preparing for; one investment for which we don’t employ specialists, to read...

'It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.' Bertrand Russell ...

I knew the ancient philosophers knew the word was round (because of the lack of shadows at noon) but not that this was known to illiterate p...

Former British Foreign Secretary Lord Lansdowne's letter to the Daily Telegraph (the Times refused to publish it) on 29 November 1917, ...

“Modern man has begun a terrible war against God and against man: a satanic war. This is why the spiritual battle with evil is part of the C...

Chesterton was right back in the time of Stalin. He would certainly think his sentence is even more true now in the age of Biden and Putin a...

A.J.P. Taylor ends his magisterial Oxford History of England 1914-45 with the words:  ' Few now sang England Arise, but England had rise...

    What were stereocards? ' The stereoscope, invented by the English physicist Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), was meant to prove that ...

'According to the Wall Street Journal, Taylor Swift got an aide to reject an invitation to appear on Archetypes , calligraphed in Meghan...

President Lukashenko did negotiate a peaceful outco me with Prozhhgeny, according to his account, and prevent a bloodbath. If he is telling ...

"If one distorts faith in Christ by uniting it with the goals of this world, the whole meaning of Christianity will at once also be des...

That headline in the Mail on Sunday asks a good question but the article has been taken down from the net. I wonder why the Wagner Group...

 

It is good to be reminded that the League of Nations was set up on the assumption that the USA would be a member. The arch neo-con Robert Ka...

When I heard the first news of the 1991 attempted coup I knew that the coup leaders were all drunk. I was proven right. This coup took place...

This lovely picture conveys a sublime sense of hierarchy with peers in ermine and coronets, no TV cameras, no gospel singers, no princess in...