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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 >
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 >
Kenneth Kaunda 1924-2021: Farewell to Zambia’s best known Humanist and autocrat
Kenneth Kaunda with Julius Nyerere of Tanzania (on left) with Chinese friends who build a railway that linked Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. (Picture: Trevor… Read more >
Church leaders, academics, poets and musicians get ready to celebrate the 100th birthday of Zimbabwe’s “leper saint”
The late John Bradburne – Roman Catholic missionary, lover of the poor and dis-advantaged, eco-warrior and now a world – acclaimed poet by Trevor Grundy June 14, 2021 marks… Read more >