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Leading Israeli journalist says that Germany is betraying memory of the Holocaust and its lessons
Gaza 2025: Will he, like Ann Frank, survive to write a best-selling diary about Man’s inhumanity to Man? TREVOR GRUNDY writes: Throughout history, Germans have demonstrated a love-hate relationship… Read more >
Leading South African commentators say it’s time to get rid of self-seeking populists
Professor William Gumede who says South Africa needs a new breed of business-minded men and women who can create national wealth and not a handful of mlti-millionaires, people like Anton… Read more >
Derek Ingram (1925-2018) – A gentleman journalist known around the world as ‘Mr Commonwealth.’
Derek Ingram outside his home in Marylebone . He was a keen gardener right until the end (Picture: Trevor Grundy) Derek Ingram would have turned 100 on June 20…. Read more >
Christian leaders in Britain stay silent as graves as millions face starvation in Gaza
A statue of the Madonna with a child at Ripon Cathedral in Yorkshire. Three Mother and Child sculptures in copper by the York artist Harold Gosney attract a great response… Read more >
Time for VE celebrations to fade away and for Britons to stop living in the past?
Time to end the Lambeth Walk and to face up to 0ur isolation in Europe and subservience to America. The right-wing journalist Peter Hitchens says that it is… Read more >
Chilhood memories about VE Day 1945: Five year old told to keep quiet about how his mother and father hoped Hitler would win the war
Street parties were held across Britain, marking what Christian vicars called the triumph of good over evil. So many of the men and women who were children in 1945… Read more >
Art exhibition at Oxford University could be good news for stone sculptors in Zimbabwe
A Shona sculptor at work. After Independence in 1980, Zimbabwean works of art were sold for hundreds – sometimes thousands – of pounds in Europe, USA and Japan, making buyers… Read more >
British Jewish leaders condemn Netanyahu’s latest Gaza offensive
Theodor Herzl was one of the architects of Zionism and author of The Jewish State which had an enormous impact on upper class British politicians, men like Arthur Balfour,… Read more >
Confused white farmers in cash-strapped Zimbabwe hang on between a rock and a hard place
In 1980, Zimbabwe inherited the racial problems that scarred and eventually destroyed Rhodesia. Even in the 1980s, old divisions stayed in place, as seen at an agricultural show in… Read more >
The voice of a long-silenced whistle-blower is heard again as historians mark the 165th anniversary of the birth of Emily Hobhouse
The suffering experienced in the camps left a lasting legacy of bitterness amongst the Boers. Between 18,000 and 28,000 Boers died, 80% of them children. The British did not bother… Read more >