That’s not how the typical politician sees it. They see our money as their money, and what we keep is a gift from them to us. (View Post)

They helped. But, I think the Spanish Foreign Legion and Moroccan regulares were more significant. (View Post)

What is odd is to pick a side in somebody else’s ethnic quarrel, and then become more royalist than the king. (View Post)

The Most Oppressed People Ever, as Ruth Dudley Edwards puts it. Some people cling on to historic grievances, like a security blanket, decades after they’ve ceased to be relevant. (View Post)

His comments about the trial seemed utterly bizarre then, but perhaps, more sinister, now. (View Post)