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Welcome to Josef Stalin’s ‘Hotel California’ in Moscow
BOOK REVIEW: The Red Hotel -The Untold Story of Stalin’s Disinformation War by Alan Philps (Headline, 2023 pp. 464 £22.00) Review by Trevor Grundy The 4th century BC… Read more >
Vicar who advised Kenneth Kaunda had kind things to say about hungry shoplifters
John Papworth (with his kitten called Isolde) and Kenneth Kaunda in London in the early 1960s – fellow Christians and friends for life ( Picture: Trevor Grundy library) By… Read more >
Look back 70 years and remember one of the 20th century’s most obnoxious betrayals of public trust
RIP: Encounter magazine 1953-1991: The cultural-political monthly Encounter magazine was published from 1953 to 1991. Seventy years after its foundation, it is best remembered because of stunning revelations that, for… Read more >
Different strokes for different folks but the same old Mugabe tactics underline elections in Zimbabwe
The ghost of Robert Mugabe – like the ghost of Banquo in Shakespeare’s Macbeth – keeps popping – up at election time in Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zimbabwe (Picture: Trevor Grundy) … Read more >
Grass roots anger mounts in post-BREXIT Britain after Tory promises to ‘take back control’
Michael Gove, a key architect of BREXIT Scattering apologies like confetti at a wedding Birmingham City Council . . . bankrupt It’s the largest local authority in the… Read more >
South African celebs tip-toe in the footsteps of George Bernard Shaw
Tourist of the Revolution – George Bernard Shaw (with freshly washed beard ) on his way to Moscow in August 1931 By Trevor Grundy The BBC’s Shinhai Nyoka… Read more >
Russian and Zimbabwean media grow closer – but is this to tell the truth or just a propaganda exercise to hide the failures of out-of-touch and incompetent leaders?
Russian schoolchildren at the Khatyn Massacre Memorial in Belarus. The German Army’s atrocities at Khatyn are not be confused with the Katyn Forest slaughter of 20,000 Polish Army officers on… Read more >
Zimbabwe 1983-1987: Gukuruhundi and the little known rape of tens of thousands of women
Robert Mugabe with ‘liberation’ leaders during the Rhodesian War. But when his guns stopped blazing against Europeans who built Rhodesia, they opened up again on people whose only home was… Read more >
Elections will raise both hopes and fears in Zimbabwe on August 23
President Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe pictured alongside his new friend President Putin. Both men hope to remain as heads of state in their respective countries for years to come. … Read more >
Missing interviews with key witnesses to murder of 14-year-old Stompie raises credibility about new book on Winnie and Nelson Mandela
Winnie with Nelson Mandela in Zimbabwe in 1990, soon after his release from prison. Brave faces hid broken hearts. (Picture: Trevor Grundy) Jonny Steinberg says he spoke to… Read more >