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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 >
Isolated Boris Johnson infuriates the public by saying millions of people have lived beyond normal life expectancy
New revelations by Johnson’s erstwhile spin-doctor- in-chief,, Dominic Cummings. The front- page of the Daily Mirror (July 20,2021) the morning after ‘Freedom’ Day. by Trevor Grundy Boris Johnson faces… Read more >
A timely and courageous insight into an African despot who won the hearts and wallets of the global elite
‘DO NOT DISTURB -The story of a political murder and an African Regime gone bad’ by Michela Wrong (Fourth Estate, London 2021 pp. 488) Review by Trevor Grundy… Read more >
Gordon Brown warns that Britain could become a failed state as Scotland’s first minister likens Boris Johnson to a frightened mouse
January 25th , 2021 and the legend of the great Robert Burns lives on. Tonigh, millions of Scots will raise their glasses and remember their greatest poet, a true son… Read more >
Bye, bye American Guy . . . but the economic and social 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 >