2014 Articles

The abject and total collapse of the Iraqi state led to the slavish obedience of allies to attempt its rescue on behalf of its American leaders who already had abandoned the scene of their failure, their double failure – to establish a democracy and to secure its oil revenues. That America has succeeded in forcing…

People informed me that in my list of collaborators with the U.S. Rescue Iraq Plan Turkey’s name was missing. I put the matter aside out of respect for my relations with the country, its Osmanli inheritors and its superior leadership in the hands of its statesman-President. Apart from my private warning to beware influential Ikhwanis…

Now that the drone has become the weapon of war – is it likely that government has become the instrument of the state? * * * * As the U.S.A. fragments into separate bankruptcies – a Republican writes a book called “The People Have Spoken – and They were Wrong!” A great American General, setting…

For those of us who were taught history at school – we know why independence matters. For those who attended school after history was eliminated from schools must know it was abolished in Westminster. The precious secret of liberty is something that must be fought for – if liberty is rejected – we will not…

I have before me as I write a copy of ‘De Jure Regni apud Scotos’ the great liberating text of George Buchanan defending Scotland’s centuries long insistence that governance was dependent on its serving the needs of the people. Since that epoch monarchy, parliament and electorate have been irrecoverably transformed into now almost undefinable and…

Imran Khan is that comic political figure – the man who never learns. He married the daughter of a mad jewish billionaire thus his son is, in judaic law, a jew. There goes the inheritance! During the election he climbed too high to show himself to the masses, fell crashing to earth, and was rushed…

Furorne caecus, an rapit vis acrior, an culpa? Responsum date! (Is it blind frenzy that hurries you along, or some stronger force, or is it guilt? Answer my question!) Horace: Epodon VII. 13-14. Oxford. A strange phenomenon has emerged in the ancient Roman colony of the jews. The Israeli populace spread out across the ancient…

In Britain a legal decision has been taken that represents an absolute severing of the most fundamental element in what has been our boast for eight hundred years. Again and again the governance of Britain has been called to account over centuries and tested in this matter. First monarchy, then parliament, and then in that…

The Russian dictator, Putin, who has maintained power by his open mockery of civic society, having manipulated mass election into a servant of dictatorship, now has attacked the heir to the British throne. In his bid to distract the Russian people from his failure to establish a just social order after the anarchy that followed…