World Wide Mogg Blog

It has long been one's opinion that good leadership is a little like fine wine. One might quibble over the more contentious vintages...

The morning of March the 15th 44BC, was much like any other spring day in Rome. The sun shone brightly on the cobbled streets and red ...

All the great faiths (and political movements are in essence Godless faiths) have schisms from time to time. In 1054 the medieval w...

Keen followers of this occasional "blog" will no doubt have noticed that I have left the remaining Christmas letters to th...

I confess that unlike W.H. Auden, I have never 'got on' with the Flemish masters. The poet (a Christ Church man) who later fou...

Good King Wenceslaus I, the eldest son of the limp and erratic Vratislaus, was the King of Bohemia from 921 until 935, when he was m...

I would rather you didn't. It frightens the horses.