newsCategory: Features & Analysis
England’s day of shame: A country captured by “gambling liars, frivolous clowns and their paid cheerleaders”
by Trevor Grundy Conservative MPs have praised it as a triumph, the day that marks the end of decades of inter-party squabbling about Britain’s role in Europe…. 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 >
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 >
Ndabaningi Sithole’s place in African history is assured whether Zanu(PF) likes it or not
Ndabaningo Sithole with Herbert Chitepo who was assassinated in Lusaka in March 1975. (Picture: Trevor Grundy Archives) By Trevor Grundy July 21 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth… Read more >
Covid-19: Leading British philosopher wonders if mankind is descending into a state of collective derangement
TREVOR GRUNDY says that a review by the British philosopher John Gray of a two-year old book by an American historian is worth reading because of the fresh… Read more >
Slaughter of the Innocents -That kind of thing can’t happen here . . .
Slaughter of the Innocents: That kind of thing can’t happen here . . . By Trevor Grundy Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock is thankful that Black Lives Matter (BLM)… Read more >