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A rising tide of plastic waste is threatening sea-birds like never before

Trevor Grundy | 15 March, 2024 | Category: Current News Features & Analysis Uncategorized

The endangered fulmar, a victim  of our  stupidity, greed and ignorance about wildlife     By Trevor Grundy Member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)  …   Read more >

Britain 2011/2024: What will follow the imminent death of British and European multiculturalism?

Trevor Grundy | 11 March, 2024 | Category: Current News Features & Analysis Uncategorized

The British Government is about to re-define what it means to be an extremist. TREVOR GRUNDY  recalls that thirteen years ago, Angela Merkel and  David Cameron made it  clear that…   Read more >

A LITTLE KNOWN FISH TAKES CENTRE STAGE IN A GROWING ROW BETWEEN BRITISH POLITICIANS AND DANISH FISHERFOLK

Trevor Grundy | 1 March, 2024 | Category: Current News Features & Analysis

A puffin at Bempton Cliffs.  This much loved sea bird, along with tens of thousands more, could face extinction.    By Trevor Grundy   BEMPTON CLIFFS, Yorkshire, England – –…   Read more >

York’s Terrible Tower and the burning and slaughter of 150 Jews in March 1190

Trevor Grundy | 19 February, 2024 | Category: Current News Features & Analysis Uncategorized

The stairway at Clifford’s Tower that leads people in 2024 back to the horrific events there in March 1190. (Picture: Trevor Grundy)   By TREVOR GRUNDY   YORK, England –…   Read more >

Hail and farewell to Gerry Loughran – media legend and one of Kenya’s most decent of men

Trevor Grundy | 9 December, 2023 | Category: Current News Features & Analysis

Obituary: Gerry Loughran (1935-2023) The British journalist who did so much to maintain high standards in post-colonial Kenya is pictured holding his book about the birth and the ups-and-downs of…   Read more >

Welcome to Josef Stalin’s ‘Hotel California’ in Moscow

Trevor Grundy | 18 October, 2023 | Category: Book Reviews Current News Features & Analysis

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

Trevor Grundy | 10 October, 2023 | Category: Current News Features & Analysis

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

Trevor Grundy | 1 October, 2023 | Category: Current News Features & Analysis

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

Trevor Grundy | 8 September, 2023 | Category: Uncategorized

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’

Trevor Grundy | 5 September, 2023 | Category: Uncategorized

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 >