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Bye, bye American Guy . . . but the economic chaos that brought Donald Trump to power four years ago is as strong as ever
By Trevor Grundy As Joe Biden gets ready to be inaugurated as America’s 46th president, leading political and social commentators in Britain and America say that the… Read more >
Spies and lies and a blocked search for truth sixty years after the murder of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo
Patrice Lumumba on his way to a horrendous death in the Congo on January 17, 1961 “What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a… Read more >
England’s day of shame: A country captured by “gambling liars, frivolous clowns and their paid cheerleaders”
Ludlow Castle in Shropshire, the home of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon after their marriage in 1501. It is the first castle built by the Normans in England after… Read more >
Anglican and Roman Catholic archbishops are not what the Christian faithful deserve, says outspoken religious affairs correspondent
Canterbury Cathedral, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion (Picture: Trevor Grundy) by Trevor Grundy It’s the 850th anniversary of the murder in Canterbury Cathedral of Thomas Becket… Read more >
Christmas in Britain 2020: Hungry children walk in the footsteps of Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist
Scrooge ( disguised as the multi-millionaire Jacob Rees-Mogg) gives Tiny Tim and his crutches made by Unicef a good kicking in Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. (Cartoon in The Times… Read more >
Giuseppe Garibaldi – A hero of two worlds
Garibaldi is best known for his invasion and conquest of Sicily in 1860 and his life-long fight for Italian unity. Not so well- known is the way he spent… Read more >
Malcolm X had dealings with the Ku Klux Klan but Julius Nyerere said “no” to a black state in USA
Malcolm X started life as a small-time crook who hated whites but a visit to Mecca changed his views about race By Trevor Grundy The Black Lives Matter… Read more >
Covid-19 inspires Zimbabwean photographer to think-up a new way of staging exhibitions
Zimbabwe’s Alexander Joe by Trevor Grundy When Alexander Joe retired after working in Africa for over thirty years, he went to Madagascar with his wife and told friends that… Read more >
Britain should apologise to Zimbabwe’s ‘little people’ for sucking-up to a mass slaughterer in 1986
“But he was not there. He does not know what happened. He (Benito Mussolini after his invasion of Greece) does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought… Read more >
Fascism: Where it came from and the tacit support it received from prominent figures
Failed Fuhrers – A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin (Routledge and New York -www.routledge.com) US$ 26.00. pp. 580. “Some day, in the not too distant… Read more >