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As forests go up in smoke, Zimbabwe’s short-sighted leaders create a desert and call it land reform
Tobacco farmers are responsible for a fifth of the total amount of deforestation in Zimbabwe By Trevor Grundy Feeding China’s growing need for cheap tobacco is creating deserts… Read more >
Deeper research is required if we are to understand a brutal war that turned Rhodesia into Zimbabwe
BOOK REVIEW A Brutal State of Affairs – The Rise and fall of Rhodesia by Henrik Ellert and Dennis Anderson (Weaver Press, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2020 pp 412) by… Read more >
Downing Street’s ‘Odd Couple’ who help safeguard Boris Johnson’s version of British democracy
Boris Johnson and Munira Mirza. The British PM says she’s ‘hip, cool, groovy and generally on-trend.’ By Trevor Grundy Whatever happens to Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the… Read more >
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 >
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 >
Accusations that Boris Johnson is a liar who is unfit to be prime minister spread throughout Britain
Boris Johnson – Always ready to shape policy around the findings of the latest opinion polls by Trevor Grundy Rules banning MPs calling one another liars in Parliament… 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 >
BREXIT 2016 AND BEYOND – What kind of con tricks have been played on the British people?
Dominic Cummings – The man the British media once hailed as an eccentric genius By Trevor Grundy Dominic Cummings and a small group of highly-paid un-elected advisers in… Read more >