A Political Refugee From The Global Village

An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms

Thursday, 31 October 2024

Hallowe'en

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Hallowe'en does not have origins in paganism, Satanism, Samhain, Druidic festivals, or the occult. It's purely Catholic, just like C...
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Monday, 28 October 2024

Acknowledgements, Lakshmi Kapoor

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"Mr. Marx does not believe in God, but he believes deeply in himself. His heart is filled not with love but with rancour. He has very l...
Friday, 25 October 2024

Quotations

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“It is the perversity of the Tory party to want to get us out of the European Union when, of course, we’re much more than ever unlikely to b...
Thursday, 24 October 2024

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard 1978 - what a great man he was

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'The split in today's world is perceptible even to a hasty glance. Any of our contemporaries readily identifies two world powers, ea...
Tuesday, 22 October 2024

News

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"Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that Israel "will encourage the voluntary transfer of all Gazan citizen...
Sunday, 20 October 2024

Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein opposed the creation of a Jewish state

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After he had been asked by Dr. Chaim Koffler of the Jewish organisation Keren Hajessod to sign a petition condemning the Arab riots of 1929,...
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Friday, 18 October 2024

Quotations

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"History knows no resting places and no plateaus. All societies of which history informs us went through periods of decline; most of th...
Wednesday, 16 October 2024

The old days

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My father and grandmother in my 1960s and 197Os childhood and adolescence thought things were better in the old days, though they were the f...
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Monday, 14 October 2024

Quotations

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"Therefore I prayed, and understanding was given me; I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me. I preferred her to sceptre...
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Saturday, 12 October 2024

Quotations

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'I am the flail of God. Had you not created great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.' Genghis Khan “I don’...
Sunday, 6 October 2024

Quotations

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But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another—slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldo...

Cardinal Sarah in April 2019 in an interview with French journalist Nicolas Diat

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“It is a false exegesis to use the Word of God to promote migration. God never wanted these heartbreaks." "The church cannot coope...

Quotations

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"People talk about grandiose plans to "reshape the Middle East" at the moment, but to be honest I think it's more likely ...
Saturday, 5 October 2024

Only the dead have seen the end of war (Santayana, not Plato)

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“There are some commentators and even some people within the defence establishment who raised the question: Why the hell not hit the nuclear...
Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Quotations

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"Show me a man who enjoyed his schooldays and I'll show you a bully and a bore." Robert Morley "Anyone who ever gave you ...
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American empire

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July 2023 as the Ukrainians were being slaughtered in the failed offensive and the US complained Ukraine was too "casualty averse"...
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Tuesday, 1 October 2024

Most dramatic events in the Middle East since October 7 last year

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"September 27th is the most important day in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords breakthrough. I have spent countless hours study...
Saturday, 28 September 2024

R.I.P. Dame Maggie Smith

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Here a re Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams reading Death in Leamington to Sir John Betjeman. It's my favourite of his poems, the one t...

Quotations

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Talmud Enjoyer @jew_AndAhalfMen If Nasrallah wanted to fight the Zionists, he should’ve just bombed his own headquarters himself '"...
Sunday, 22 September 2024

Quotations

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 'Under the liberal pre-war planning] system, Cambridge’s huge success in life sciences would have allowed it to grow, both up and out, ...
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