Category: Current News

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

Monarch’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 >