SINCE the time of Peter the Great, Russia has been a force in the world, both politically and culturally. It remains so today, despite the fact that many dismissed it after the fall of the Soviet Union. Described by Winston Churchill as ‘a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’, this is the Russia that […]
WINSTON Churchill once described Russia as ‘a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’. It is this enigma that Hillsdale College, an independently minded academic institution in the US, decided to explore a year ago. To better, and indeed fully, understand Russia’s conflict with Ukraine and Russia’s role in the shifting balance of power in today’s world, […]
WINSTON Churchill once described Russia as ‘a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’. It is this enigma that Hillsdale College, an independently minded academic institution in the US, decided to explore a year ago. To better, and indeed fully, understand Russia’s conflict with Ukraine and Russia’s role in the shifting balance of power in today’s […]
THE need for a better understanding of post-Cold War Russia in view of its war with Ukraine, has never been more pressing. The staggering toll of deaths and casualties for both countries, to which Western public opinion seems surprisingly indifferent, raises questions that Western media continue largely to ignore. What are the geopolitics? What is […]
The Prisoner of Windsor by Mark Steyn; Stockade Books (April 2023) LAUGHTER is the balm of life, and if you are in need some of that balm I cannot direct you to a funnier book – one that makes you laugh out loud – than Mark Steyn’s novel, The Prisoner of Windsor, which he describes as a sequel to The […]
NEXT March, Ireland will hold two referendums on possible changes to the country’s near century-old constitution. It is proposed that a highly significant use of the word ‘woman’ is removed. It is suggested that the constitution’s recognition of the endless unpaid labour that women do should also be removed. In Saturday’s Daily Mail, Laura Perrins argued that […]
SOME of you will recall that we promised to repeat a number of Nick Booth’s blogs to commemorate him and his unique talent after his death in September at the age of 62, so from today until Christmas that is what we are doing. It has been a challenge to select them – they are all so clever, original […]
AN Epoch Times report is both exciting and potentially very good news for those who care about the coup against democracy that the Biden administration is perpetrating in the United States. It says: ‘The US Supreme Court could upend more than 330 criminal cases and strike down the most potent weapon in the Department of Justice’s arsenal against January 6 protesters.’ The […]
THANKS to Callum Watkinson and his ‘Hunt and Gather’ reporting and video company, I am able to continue posting the presentations of the US scientists and doctors Andrew Bridgen gathered together for his ‘The Pandemic and its consequences’ event at Portcullis House on Monday December 4. Here today are those given by Dr Ryan Cole and Dr Robert Malone. Starting with Dr […]
THIS was the week that I got out – or ‘was got out’ – from behind my desk, where I normally spend far too many hours of the day, to enjoy some of the things that London still has to offer. The first was an invitation (courtesy of my elder son) to the Magdalen College Oxford choir’s […]
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