Many years ago now, or so it seems, at the height of the Cold War my commanding officer had the foresight to enrol some of his junior officers on a Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst post graduate Soviet Studies course...
I have been a student of the Great War since my school History Society days , I read Churchill's World Crisis at fourteen, no I did not treat it as gospel ,indeed there is no gospel on this crime...
My lockdown is idyllic, I am one of the most fortunate people in England at the moment. We have a smallholding in the East Riding of Yorkshire, close to the river Derwent which is the border between the North & East...
Well - the response to my interest in bitcoin over the past week has been nothing short of amazing. I was totally surprised at the passion and interaction I was getting for simply saying I plan to buy some...
A few weeks ago there was one of those 'storm in teacup rows which somehow capture the imagination. An eminent violinist, Kwa Wha Chung, a lady of great ability and old world Asian courtesy was driven to exasperation by...
It focuses the mind does it not when a monarch attains the age of 90, remains popular and is still very active. The constitutional monarchy bears closer examination as the longest running system of democratic government. It cannot be...
Believe me my young friend there is nothing, absolutely nothing, half as much worth doing as simply messing about in boats (Ratty to Mole, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows)
I first started...
Whenever my wife sees a period drama on the telly she gets agitated if mistakes are made with matters equestrian, she is an expert on such matter. My father, an ex RAF pilot would get equally so if radio...
It grieves me deeply to have to write this piece, I am a staunch monarchist as are my forbears & extended family, I hold the Queen’s Commission as did my father & have written extensively in the...
Whenever I lecture in America on my style of libertarianism I come under pressure from student fundamentalists who feel a traditional libertarian is the ultimate oxymoron. I argue again here today that tradition,especially legal tradition in England, has its...