Whatever you may think of it, everyone – politicians most of all – must respect the Brexit vote. The British people are not a bunch of children who need to be stood in the corner by know-it-all politicians because they voted “wrong”. They have voted, albeit by a slim margin, to no longer be part of the European Union. As far…

Il me paraît que tout acte porte en lui-même sa justification. It seems to me that every act carries within itself its justification. André Breton The most likely “alternative” to the current Cameron government is an Ed Miliband government. I don’t entertain this possibility with glee, and I also don’t bother to weigh in on…

C’est une sphère infinie, dont le centre est partout et la circonférence nulle part. It is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere. Blaise Pascal In my publishing this week, most notable were an op-ed at Press TV , my last to have expressed hope that Scots vote for independence, and my review at h+…

A la base de notre civilisation, il y a la liberté de chacun dans sa pensée, ses croyances, ses opinions, son travail, ses loisirs. At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Charles de Gaulle I have recently changed my…

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