I think my earlier confusion about what to call the self-righteous didactic restrictive bansturbators of Guardianista bien-pensants has been...

Blair's big tent, constructed over several acres to accommodate all his enemies pissing out, and otherwise known as the Millennium Dome,...

The man tipped to replace Merkel as 'leader of the free world' as the wimpering Guardian would have it, Martin Schulz, a man endowed...

It has been NATO, of course, and not the EU that has played the principle part in maintaining peace in Europe since 1949. Indeed, it is now ...

The most loathed ex-politician in Britain is scrabbling to rise from his political grave; Blair, whose mummified features can barely raise a...

Like a partner in an ugly divorce who just won't realise they have no say in their ex-partner's share of the split, the EU just won...

Well, they've got the flag, the motto, the anthem and they've paved the way for the army, or at least for a Brussels ceremonial guar...

The UK finally ended sales of leaded petrol in 2000. From 2018 we should start to see the benefit of this in terms of a substantial reductio...

Kenneth Clark's original 'Civilisation' documented a linear progression from Egyptian Pharaohs to Edwardian London in which the ...

Are these kids tomorrow's coal miners? Not a referenced post, but picking up on Steve's comments, which are worthy of a whole s...

Simon Jenkins has penned a corker of a column for today's Guardian - it should be compulsory reading for every town planner, every coun...

Many of Europe's nations take a fairly laid-back approach to firearms, and do so with hardly any of their citizens being shot at all. Ma...

It was in 1985 that I sat spellbound in Ronnie Scott's at Nina Simone. A musician, songwriter and performer of the most superlative tale...

Political corruption is endemic throughout Europe, and Britain can only boast that our populist checks and balances make it harder here for ...

The chap criticising RT on the Today programme declared that it was a state-sponsored national broadcaster subject to government control and...

Austria is going ahead with a ban on the Niqab and Burqa in public venues - places where there is an expectation that people will show their...

A European customs union in which goods, services and capital can circulate freely is a pretty good idea. The power of Europe's 440m peo...

The majority of illegals held after trying to enter Australia are not Indonesians, Thais or Vietnamese but Iraqis, Iranians, Sudanese and Li...

SS-Sturmbannführer Ernst Lerch started adult life working in his father's cafe in Klagenfurt. A secret Austrian Nazi, when war came he s...

For non-readers of Cyrillic (including me) the headline in the Bulgarian Times claims that the EU intends to ban Snowmen as racist and sexis...