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Geoffrey Nyarota (1951-2025) – Death of a Zimbabwean media giant who inspired a generation of journalists
Geoffrey Nyarota at the time he took on ruling party big wigs and exposed massive corruption at the heart of the new Zimbabwe Zimbabweans mourn the death of Geoffrey… Read more >
South Africa defies Trump and pays the high price of principles that Nelson Mandela promised to uphold forever
Nelson Mandela with Yasser Arafat in Palestine in November 1999. The South African leader said he would never ever betray or let down the Palestinians. The Republic of South… Read more >
Mysterious North Sea oil tanker collision – Yet another threat to Europe’s endangered wildlife
Bempton Cliffs in East Yorkshire, close to where the disastrous oil tankers collided on Monday 10 March 2025 (picture: Trevor Grundy) Environment experts say that an oil tanker… Read more >
New Zealand fires its top man in London to stop Donald Trump blowing a fuse in Washington
Phil Goff – New Zealand High Commissioner to the United Kingdom until he asked about Trump’s knowledge of history It’s Commonwealth Day (March 10, 2025) Representatives from the 54… Read more >
Fifty years down the line and still a deafening silence about the assassination of Herbert Chitepo
Herbert Chitepo. A stamp of approval from a government that dares not answer a vital question – Who killed him and why? Who killed Herbert Chitepo in March… Read more >
History repeats itself: First as a Nazi salute and then as “an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm”
Elon Musk making one of his “awkward gestures” at a rally of Trump supporters in Washington In the 1930s, giving the Hitler Salute was a way of demonstrating one’s… Read more >
General Synod 2025: Some Church of England bishops would be forced to stand down were they subjected to scrutiny by a truly independent board of child sex abuse examiners
Outspoken and courageous, Dame Jasvinder Sanghera. She has raised a subject that will cause hearts in the Church’s out of touch hierarchy to miss a beat or two The… Read more >
GENERAL SYNOD 2025: The appalling child abuse scandal is the elephant in the room as Church of England leaders meet in London
Justin Welby, forced to resign as Archbishop of Canterbury but still living at Lambeth Palace in London (Picture by Trevor Grundy taken at World Council of Churches (WCC) summit in… Read more >
Genocides and ethic cleansings continue to haunt us. Aren’t we all sick to death of those two meaningless words “Never again!”
Memories are made of this: Kulaks were seen by Stalin as wealthy exploiters of the “struggling urban-based Russian masses.” This frightened woman was forced to leave her home with her… Read more >
Tourism 2025: Seize the day and end unregulated mass tourism that is turning Europe into an over-crowded culture wasteland
Selfie taking tourists abound throughout the Mediterranean world as this selfie-obsessed visitor to Valetta Harbour in Malta would confirm (Picture: Trevor Grundy) Camera clicking, self-obsessed podcasters, crime fuelling brats,… Read more >