Before I turn my attention to the dire European Arrest Warrant and some of its particularly noxious effects, I shall post a link to a rather...

Last Friday I went to the Open Russia Club in London, specifically in Hanover Square, usually an elegant Mayfair space but currently a bu...

I have been re-reading Harold Nicolson 's Diaries and Letters and have now reached the third volume, which starts in July 1945 when he l...

Time for me to spread my usual Christmas gloom and misery. Let us start with that iconic Christmas book, Charles Dickens's magnificen...

There is some talk going on about the need for a political realignment, for new parties to make a break-through, for old parties to split ac...

On another blog I shall be reviewing Dick Leonard's interesting but not entirely adequate double biography of those two Victorian politi...

Last Saturday the Guildhall Library , an institution in the City of London that is not perhaps as well known as it ought to be, held an open...

I had better start with a declaration of multiple interests: both John O'Sullivan, author of this review and Douglas Murray , author of...

This lunchtime I attended a meeting organized by the Henry Jackson Society  at which the noted American author, consultant, editorialist, le...

I have been reading two hefty volumes in tandem (apart from boring EU and Parliamentary material and variable detective stories). One is Ann...

This is a slightly odd posting for me, firstly because I rarely use this blog for writing about a book I happen to be reading (though I seem...

I spent part of yesterday in journeying to and from Oxford and reading an elegantly short book edited by the highly distinguished Tom G. Pal...

If you want to read good arguments about the morality of capitalism (let's face it, the only political system that spreads wealth fairly...

It is about time this blog had a book review and I can think of no better subject than Peter Whittle’s recent Monarchy Matters , published b...

... than I get a reply from a reader. I knew someone would know the answer to the puzzle of the banker who was the best Homeric scholar . It...

John O'Sullivan is one of the best political commentators around and I do not say that just because he is a friend of many years standin...

A friend has passed on to me his copy of Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny , the American publishing sensation last year . Subtitled, A C...

Norman M. Naimark, Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University and author of several important books on the darker aspects of ...

This is the unsurprising conclusion Andrew Klavan comes to after the publication of his "controversial" or different from the us...

Yesterday I went to the launch of a new book by Madsen Pirie of the Adam Smith Institute , called Understanding Economics and subtitled Eco...