Time is not up for our finest hour
As an unmistakably plump-formed and plummy-voiced descendent of the 1st Duke of Marlborough fills our cinemas with his imperishable oratory once more, this time in…
A rube with a view
Remember, remember ‘Red November’ and Venezuela continued
If, like me, you cannot help but read propaganda sellotaped to lamp-posts, you will be assuredly aware that, this month and last, many intended to…
Venezuela: an inspiration to us all?
First there was the USSR. Then there was the Communist Bloc. Then there was Cuba. Now, there is Venezuela. As George Orwell observed in the…
Terrorism does work – but not in the way you think
After the latest outbreak of Islamist terror in Britain, following the expressions of sorrow and sympathy there comes the commonplace injunction that such terrorism ‘must…