Category Archives: England

From the Sydney Morning Herald: * The British monarchy, like every other monarchy, lives or dies on its respect for tradition – that handing down of customs from generation to generation. By snubbing process and protocol in petty ways, the … Continue reading →

Andrew O’Hagen writes: Penguins​ are super-parents. When the female provides dinner she doesn’t just reach for the pesto but launches herself into the treacherous, icy depths, returning with a stomach full of half-digested fish to be spewed down the gullet … Continue reading →

A.P. Martinich writes in this 1999 book: * no matter how stupid and weak a person may be, he still has enough wit and strength to kill another person, no matter how smart and strong. “If we consider…with how great … Continue reading →

Conrad Black writes: * Paul Johnson: “What sustained the English during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation years, what enabled them to preserve heterodoxy in England and uphold it on the continent, what enabled them to defeat the Armada and rip open … Continue reading →

Here are some highlights of this 2020 book by professor Alan Allport: * A war fought in defence of Poland or Romania would be ‘devastating’; the independence of neither state was of any inherent vital interest to Britain, or possible … Continue reading →