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Deeper research is required if we are to understand a brutal war that turned Rhodesia into Zimbabwe
BOOK REVIEW A Brutal State of Affairs – The Rise and fall of Rhodesia by Henrik Ellert and Dennis Anderson (Weaver Press, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2020 pp 412) by… Read more >
New book sheds fresh light on Italian war crimes in Ethiopia and the help the Pope gave to Mussolini’s fascists
Book Review ‘Holy War – The untold story of Catholic Italy’s crusade against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’ by Ian Campbell (Hurst & Company, London, 449 pp) by Trevor Grundy … Read more >
Downing Street’s ‘Odd Couple’ who help safeguard Boris Johnson’s version of British democracy
Boris Johnson and Munira Mirza. The British PM says she’s ‘hip, cool, groovy and generally on-trend.’ By Trevor Grundy Whatever happens to Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the… Read more >
Ruth Weiss to be honoured for her life-long service to journalism and her struggle for human rights in Europe and Africa
Ruth Weiss – much honoured German-Jewish journalist and author (Picture: Trevor Grundy, Harare, Zimbabwe 1983) By Trevor Grundy One of the world’s leading campaigners against apartheid in South… Read more >
DRC-born cleric could be breath of fresh air in a church that needs to kick-start a new relationship with Britain’s ethnic communities
DRC-born Canon Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy will be consecrated as the new Bishop of Willesden at St Paul’s Cathedral in London on January 25, 2022 By Trevor Grundy CANTERBURY, ENGLAND… Read more >
Island nation to end its link with the Royal Family
Barbados Prime Minister, Mia Mottley: The royal future in Australia Canada, and New Zealand is also under the political microscope of constitutionalists, politicians and religious leaders. by Trevor Grundy… Read more >
JAMES CHIKEREMA: An unforgettable Rumble in the Jungle long before dreams turned into nightmares in Zimbabwe
James Chikerema, one of the founding fathers of Zimbabwe. His massive contribution to African freedom has been air-brushed out of official history by nervous pen – pushers and sycophantic politicians… Read more >
White supremacist who down-loaded bomb-making instructions told to read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to help him mend his ways
Gay Pride and Racial Prejudice: Jane Austen’s novel about the upper-middle-class marriage market in England over 200 years ago , is one of the books recommended by a judge in… Read more >
We’re not living under Stalin so why do we let literary nincompoops wave clenched fists at us?
“The only thing that gives these made-up decrees any authority is obeying them.” – Lionel Shriver By Trevor Grundy In his Introduction to the first edition of Eugene… Read more >
Seawater eats away at St Mark’s Basilica threatening Venice and the Christian world’s greatest artworks
Basilica di San Marco, with its 13th century mosaics and 125 types of rare marble. It is an exquisite shrine encapsulating the Venetian Republic’s vision of itself as the successor… Read more >