A Political Refugee From The Global Village

"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up....

The British authorities blame the far right for the recent riots, but 67% of British people think immigration policy in recent years has “a ...

"I am never more serious than when I am joking." Robert Frost "I’m incredibly proud of my brother. Selfishly I will have him ...

“Trump buys the Putin view that big countries get to call the shots in their own back yard.” Former MI6 Chief Sir Alex Younger talking to Ro...

“A riot is the language of the unheard.” Martin Luther King 'If there is hope it lies in the proles.' (George Orwell, 1984) 'The...

You are dying. I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay. I can prove to you that your great wealth and your great poverty, your ...

John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews These mindless riots are doing untold damage to the UK’s reputation right across the world. And yet the secret...

From today's Sunday Telegrap h.

"It is also a habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at table and in society; citizens, they feel, are en...

Today is the birthday of the late Queen Mother, who was born in 1900 and died in 2002. Here is a painting of her by Laszlo from 1925 when sh...

“The love of country is a deep and universal instinct... Men who deny their national spiritual heritage in exchange for a vague and watery c...

 

Przemysław Babiarz, a Polish commentator, was suspended by the state broadcaster TVP for criticizing John Lennon's song 'Imagine...

Arnaud Bertrand: Ex-CIA agent Philip Agee: "In CIA, we didn't give a hoot about democracy. If a country did not cooperate with us, ...

According to Alistair Crooke, who was often right about the Syrian war, one egregious folly was the American belief that Russia could be def...

A senior Washington official told Seymour Hersh,  “Obama called Biden after breakfast [on July 20] and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamal...

The spokesman for the Romanian Orthodox Patriarch was reported in the newspapers yesterday saying the parody of the Last Supper at the Olym...

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but...

"Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and t...

I was wrong it seems and the controversial scene in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony was intended as a parody of the Last Supper.  Even i...