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Chutzpah, spin doctors, pantomime politicians and liars in public places
By Trevor Grundy What is the effect of large-scale lying on the psychology of a nation? Does lying on the grand scale have the same effect on a… Read more >
Cummings and Johnson are ‘cowards’ and are treating the British people as if they are ‘fools’
By Trevor Grundy London, May 25 (2020) – – – One of Britain’s top behavioral scientists, Stephen Reicher who is the professor of Social Psychology at St Andrews University,… Read more >
Zimbabwe’s best- loved musical instrument is introduced to billions during cultural diversity week
Kenny Mangwena from Zimbabwe playing the mbira at an African culture festival organised by Music for Change in Canterbury, southern England (Picture: Trevor Grundy) By Trevor Grundy As many… Read more >
‘It’s the Media, Stupid!’ Writers examine role of the Press in Labour’s catastrophic 2019 defeat
It’s the Media, Stupid! The Media, the 2019 Election and the Aftermath (Published by the Campaign for Free Press and Broadcasting Federation (North) 2020 £9.99 / 144 pp.) Review… Read more >
The Coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in Africa and disaster faces the Global South
As always, the poor and the under-nourished will be the first to fall. A woman waiting to be fed by Roman Catholic missionaries at the border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique… Read more >
Public anger mounts alongside growing desperation from endangered NHS workers and critical health watchdogs
Despite warnings from the WHO, the British Government was painfully slow to organise a national lockdown. Picture shows some of the 250,000 people who gathered at the Cheltenham racing festival… Read more >
Ghost of Hitler blocks search for truth in Germany 75 years after end of World War Two
Germans are being asked to help find the memories of the little people whose lives are the backbone of history. But the haunting spirit of Adolf Hitler and the murder… Read more >
Public life in Britain sinks as low as the country’s best-known playwright can remember
David Hare – one of Britain’s most outspoken men of letters By Trevor Grundy London, April 24, 2020 – – – David Hare, arguably Britain’s best known and most… Read more >
Stop spinning and give us some truth The Sun and The Times tell Johnson’s promise-rich ministers
Sir Simon McDonald – forced to make an embarrassing verbal somersault to placate a shaky Johnson government. By Trevor Grundy London, April 23, 2020 – – – Britain’s… Read more >
South African editors worried about the impact coronavirus will have on media publishing houses
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) is deeply concerned about the increasing number of media houses facing drastic falls in earnings as a result of dwindling advertising due… Read more >