Mostly what I want is for the Labour Party leadership election to be over. I no longer care who wins and by how much, I just want it to be o...

In 1840 Mikhail Lermontov , one of Russia's greatest poets and an army officer, was exiled, after a duel, to the Caucasus where Russia, ...

Some of my readers may have missed the fascinating news we are getting from Russia about the destruction of perfectly good food and some ser...

Once again, it being the silly season, there are discussions about the need to reform the House of Lords, make it more accountable to the pe...

Seventy years ago the first atom bomb to be used in war was dropped on the  city of Hiroshima, the second one, on Nagasaki to follow two...

The latest IEA publication, which I have just finished reading is thoroughly to be recommended. Eamonn Butler's Classical Liberalism - A...

Readers of this blog may be aware of the fact that I am not a great supporter of highly expensive, seriously corrupt international sporting ...