I have been told by one of the less entertaining readers of this blog that I have out-Thornberried Ms Emily Thornberry of whom I had actuall...

To be accurate, what I intend to write is not even a proposal, more of a suggestion, brought about by my continuing astonishment at the naiv...

Bulgarians demonstrating against their corrupt politicians (whom, I believe, they elected but that is another story) is not bizarre. Nor is ...

Those readers who might have found the saga of the Czech Prime Minister of some interest ( here , here and here ) will, undoubtedly, be dis...

Given how many different bits of regulation the EU has imposed on its member states and how many other bits of legislation and regulation th...

Several news items of interest about people who really should retire from the political and media circuit but seem unable to do so. First of...

Reuters reports that another Prime Minister, this time the Spanish one, is under some pressure to resign. So far, he is holding the line, a...

Rumours of this reached me a couple of weeks ago and the story is being confirmed through a secretly made tape as well as denied officially ...

A friend and regular reader of this blog (one of the few not the many) sent me this link with a comment: "How quickly they learn."...

There can be little doubt in anybody’s mind that motivates politicians is love of power, which is even more of a corrupting influence than p...