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July/August 2013
'Britain's best hope of renewing and defending Western civilisation is to recognise that the English language has conquered the world without a drop of blood being spilt'
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July/August 2013
Sacre bleu! Why bother learning any French when in France you’ll just be humiliated? Let’s study Mandarin, or Arabic, or Spanish in schools instead.
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April 2013
As has been the case for hundreds of years, the appointment of Pope Francis was announced in Latin. But the BBC and Sky News didn't know their quas from their elbows
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January/February 2013
The author of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit was a great conservative writer
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