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Christian leaders in Britain stay silent as graves as millions face starvation in Gaza
A statue of the Madonna with a child at Ripon Cathedral in Yorkshire. Three Mother and Child sculptures in copper by the York artist Harold Gosney attract a great response… Read more >
Time for VE celebrations to fade away and for Britons to stop living in the past?
Time to end the Lambeth Walk and to face up to 0ur isolation in Europe and subservience to America. The right-wing journalist Peter Hitchens says that it is… Read more >
Chilhood memories about VE Day 1945: Five year old told to keep quiet about how his mother and father hoped Hitler would win the war
Street parties were held across Britain, marking what Christian vicars called the triumph of good over evil. So many of the men and women who were children in 1945… Read more >
Art exhibition at Oxford University could be good news for stone sculptors in Zimbabwe
A Shona sculptor at work. After Independence in 1980, Zimbabwean works of art were sold for hundreds – sometimes thousands – of pounds in Europe, USA and Japan, making buyers… Read more >
British Jewish leaders condemn Netanyahu’s latest Gaza offensive
Theodor Herzl was one of the architects of Zionism and author of The Jewish State which had an enormous impact on upper class British politicians, men like Arthur Balfour,… Read more >
Confused white farmers in cash-strapped Zimbabwe hang on between a rock and a hard place
In 1980, Zimbabwe inherited the racial problems that scarred and eventually destroyed Rhodesia. Even in the 1980s, old divisions stayed in place, as seen at an agricultural show in… Read more >
The voice of a long-silenced whistle-blower is heard again as historians mark the 165th anniversary of the birth of Emily Hobhouse
The suffering experienced in the camps left a lasting legacy of bitterness amongst the Boers. Between 18,000 and 28,000 Boers died, 80% of them children. The British did not bother… Read more >
Geoffrey Nyarota (1951-2025) – Death of a Zimbabwean media giant who inspired a generation of journalists
Geoffrey Nyarota at the time he took on ruling party big wigs and exposed massive corruption at the heart of the new Zimbabwe Zimbabweans mourn the death of Geoffrey… Read more >
South Africa defies Trump and pays the high price of principles that Nelson Mandela promised to uphold forever
Nelson Mandela with Yasser Arafat in Palestine in November 1999. The South African leader said he would never ever betray or let down the Palestinians. The Republic of South… Read more >
Mysterious North Sea oil tanker collision – Yet another threat to Europe’s endangered wildlife
Bempton Cliffs in East Yorkshire, close to where the disastrous oil tankers collided on Monday 10 March 2025 (picture: Trevor Grundy) Environment experts say that an oil tanker… Read more >