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Zimbabwe’s best- loved musical instrument is introduced to billions during cultural diversity week
Kenny Mangwena from Zimbabwe playing the mbira at an African culture festival organised by Music for Change in Canterbury, southern England (Picture: Trevor Grundy) By Trevor Grundy As many… Read more >
People with a fighting spirit can beat the virus – “A myth that needs de-bunking” says top TV presenter
By Trevor Grundy London, April 9 (2020) – – – It has been rightly said that Truth is the first casualty of war, to which we might add “and God… Read more >
Former Supreme Court judge warns that Britain could be heading towards a police state
Former Supreme Court judge warns that Britain could be heading towards a police state By Trevor Grundy London, March 30, 2020 – – -The British public, the police, politicians and… Read more >
Traditional religious beliefs can fuel the spread of killer viruses in Africa and Asia
First published in the October 2015 edition of the Zambian monthly magazine “The Bulletin and Record” President Obama says that if the Ebola virus mutates –making it even more… Read more >
Remembering Spanish Flu that swept the world after the First World War (1914-1918)
History (From articles published in Politicsweb (South Africa) Cold Type (Canada) and Asian Affairs (London) in August 2014) The rise of antibiotic superbugs poses what the British Prime Minister David… Read more >
Malice in Wonderland – A Commonwealth saga that grows ‘curiouser and curiouser’ by the day
By Trevor Grundy “Curiouser and curiouser,” exclaimed Alice when she came across Tweedledum and Tweedledee at the Pool of Tears in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Un-grammatical but… Read more >
The Commonwealth’s “Baroness Shameless” is told to get a grip or go
At a time when Britain is looking to friends outside the European Union, New Zealand has pulled its funding for the Commonwealth Secretariat, the London – based body that… Read more >
Christians in Europe share a common memory of the murdered saint who defied an English king
By TREVOR GRUNDY Thomas Becket, the 12th century’s “turbulent priest” whose murder in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170 brought a powerful mediev0al monarch to his knees during a… Read more >
Investigative journalist pays £90,000 to go free in Magufuli’s independent media bashing Tanzania
25th February 2020 A report in The Times (today) said that Erick Kabendera was persuaded to admit money laundering and tax vasion to get out of prison. But he was… Read more >
Gandhi: Will he be the next victim of Britain’s ‘politically correct’ militants?
While a student campaign has failed to stop a statue of Mahatma Gandhi being raised in Manchester, the row over his bigoted attitudes continues to rage – including in India…. Read more >