Back from New York. Getting there via JFK airport was an experience. On the plane I filled in the usual visitor entry forms plus customs form using the only pen I had with me, namely a red-ink Pilot Vball. When we reached the immigration officer my heart sank. He had […]
Back in New York, so re-reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. The blurb on the back of my Harper Collins edition describes the book as being all about ‘ambition, power, gold and love’. Not really. Did they read it? This is the best book about Freedom and Communism, a rambling […]
I am off to New York for a few days. When and why do places like New York decay and then recover? Radical thinking plays a part in it: almost all modern revolutions, from the Jacobins to the Nazis and the Communists, have ended with the streets running with blood, […]
Let’s hear it for the rock band which extols the virtues of: (a) Soviet Comunism; and (b) B Obama Doesn’t post-modern irony sometimes go … just a bit too far?
Read this remarkable piece by Ben Macintyre about the huge collection of papers and other material deliberately buried by heroic Polish Jews during the Warsaw Ghetto disaster of WW2. They knew what they were doing: The compilers of this archive knew they were doomed, and framed their project as an […]
Gerard Baker in the Times today makes a weighty case against Hillary and why Democratic voters have rejected her. So she should be put out of her misery: It would not be sexism or chauvinism but the clear-headed decision of a wise statesman, if Senator Obama brought this particular woman’s […]
Rupert Cornwell in the Independent gives a glowing tribute to Senator Edward Kennedy’s life and achievements. Maybe he should have included his thoughts on the evidence from the KGB archives that Kennedy tried to work with the Soviet Communists to stop President Reagan being re-elected in 1984? A stunning story, so damning […]
A ‘buzz’ is being generated a new documentary film about Roman Polanski’s flight from the US legal system. This is what the original case was all about, way back in 1977. Not a nice story. Since then Polanski has not set foot in the USA and has kept well clear […]
Here is Pat Buchanan rambling on about the utility of talking to dictators. He somehow contrives to say that Poland brought Hitlerian disaster on itself by being a bit too "proud, defiant and heroic", albeit egged on by "insane" British guarantees. All this and more is meant to cast in […]
… are, it turns out, easily indentifiable. And Guido identifies them. I went to a ‘direct grant’ school myself (St Albans School). Does that qualify me to write for a Left-inclined national newspaper?
