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Achilles in Afghanistan: Combat betrayal, liars in public places and the onset of the berserk state in former soldiers
Reaching Out, Battle for Hill 484 by Larry Burrows By Trevor Grundy The head of Britain’s armed forces, General Sir Nick Carter, has stunned former military commanders and… Read more >
A 394-year walk with British royalty has done us harm, says top Caribbean historian and reparatory justice campaigner
Sir Hilary Beckles signing a book called ‘Britain’s Black Debt.‘ It tells how some of England’s best respected families sprung from nowhere until they entered the Caribbean and made billions… Read more >
Boorish Johnson finds the destruction of mining communities in Scotland something to joke about
PLONKER ON A PLANK: Boris Johnson, aged 15, at Eton College in 1979. How much longer will this rude and arrogant man run Britain? By Trevor Grundy Long-stilled… Read more >
Russian oligarchs join queue to donate and shake hands with Prince Charles of Bucksinhand Palace
Emma Raducanu, winner of this year’s US Open – Picture from front page of Private Eye 17-30 September 2021 By Trevor Grundy On the BBC’s flagship radio Today,… Read more >
Mike Hartnack (1945-2006) – A great African journalist who will never be forgotten
Michael Hartnack was one of Zimbabwe’s finest journalists and foreign correspondents. He died fifteen years ago on August 2, 2006 after suffering a heart attack while attending an art exhibition… Read more >
Queen’s power to change legislation is archaic and should be scrapped, says Scotland’s top land rights campaigner
Evening at Balmoral, a watercolour by the artist Carl Haag which is on the front page of The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger,(Cambridge University Press, 1983),… Read more >
Boris Johnson and Priti Patel say criminals should clean the streets and ‘yobs’ should be put in chain gangs
Crime-crackers Johnson and Patel: Chain gangs minimised the cost of guarding prisoners By Trevor Grundy Two of Britain’s most high-profile politicians, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Affairs… Read more >
A perfect storm gathers as Jamaica demands billions of pounds in reparations for the slave trade
Slave in Chains or the Captive Slave attributed to the artist John Simpson 1825-1830 By Trevor Grundy At a time when athletes take the knee, and when anyone… Read more >
Keep right on till the end of the Rhodes
Hundreds of books have been written about Cecil Rhodes. One wonders how many of them have been read by student and tutor activists at Oxford University and how many of… Read more >
The Johnson and Patel way of dealing with asylum seekers exposes a “brutal hostility towards vulnerable people” says charity chief
Asylum seekers crossing the Channel on their way to the land of Hope and Glory By Trevor Grundy June 22 marked the 73rd anniversary of the arrival of the… Read more >