What strikes me about Trump and his clique is how self-defeating they are. They talk about making America great, when all that they’re doing is retreating before people who hate America. That’s where… (View Post)

If the USA has conceded that Ukraine and the Baktics and Moldova belong to Russia then that transforms European politics. But, not in a good way. (View Post)

Matthew Parris can never help but reveal his disdain for the lower classes (ever snice he was Mrs. Thatcher's secretary, and wrote a letter purportedly on her behalf to a council tenant, who was… (View Post)

I do think that a lot of judges in the Immigration Tribunal system need to be dismissed. They take a kind of wilful delight in frustrating the will of Parliament, whilst pretending to uphold it. (View Post)

French was the common language of literature, and Latin of scholarship. And, tournaments were an excellent opportunity to make friends with foreign knights. (View Post)