The latest volume in the excellent Yale University Press series Annals of Communism   is Secret Cables of the Comintern 1933-1943 . Those ca...

Sorry about this, folks, but today is St Crispin's Day and the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. So, no escaping this clip:

Dean Martin, John Wayne and A. N. Other

Not UKIP this time. To be honest, I am bored with the subject and with the people who spring to that party's defence or so they think. ...

[Health warning: yes, this is another posting about UKIP but it is not entirely critical of that benighted organization or, at least, it is ...

One of the few positive aspects of the routine farce that is known as the appointment and vetting (by the Toy Parliament) of the new Commiss...

Back in the days of the numerous People's Democracies and People's Republics (one or two of which are still with us) it would have s...