Underneath you find a review by the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark  of  Angela Merkel's autobiography (Merkel, the emeritus Germa...

We've found this nice article in the Guardian, and present a few highlights with the original HTML-markup still in place and a picture ...

(Plus ça change:) Benjamin Franklin , in "Dangers of a settled bureaucracy" (1787)

Update:   Perhaps we've underestimated Labour (see last paragraph below). Gaby Hinsliff writes in The Guardian : But politics is all ...

If history "teaches" anything, it teaches irony...and so, here we are, with a set of "propaganda" posters distributed b...

Here's a picture of the coin the Trump administration released prematurely in "commemoration" of the historical Trump-Un meet...

Nikolas Sarkozy, former French president, was arrested yesterday for money laundering. Remember our post of Nov. 23, 2010 about the the...

We received several political emails from Perry (him from the Kingdom). In the first email, he writes: Perry On the VP Ryan front...

Remember our not-so-prescient words from a recent post : "And the press of the Free World is eating this up as if it were Yorkshire p...

Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann have signed a pledge , which obliges them to monogamy and more. Michele Bachmann (note the flag) ...

Q: So, what does it all mean? A: The end of Strauss-Kahn's (DSK) career, of course, and more. Q: He could deny it; then it's hi...

Reagan was shot, but not killed, kids, and I was there. Sort of. Reagan was shot in March '81 ("Please tell me you're all R...

FF has held the Baron in high esteem, raving about him as the Minister of good looks , misunderstood by 12 year old Japanese females who ow...

You may recall the days of The Wall , when West Berlin was still officially the capital of Germany ("Hauptstadt Berlin"), but th...