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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 >
Seventy years on and Camus’s The Plague still has the power to make us change our lives
Seventy years on and Camus’s The Plague still has the power disturb and change our ways By Trevor Grundy Books should be reviewed when they’re relevant, not just… Read more >
Boris Johnson’s handling of the Coronavirus crisis a “national scandal” says editor of The Lancet
A “national scandal” The editor of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet has hit out at Boris Johnson’s government over the way it has handled the corronavirus epidemic and condemning… Read more >
Gareth Jones lives again in a ground-breaking film about genocide in the Ukraine
The Polish director of “Mr Jones – 1933, The Holodomor” says that this is a film that tells the most important story you will ever watch. But some Russia-watchers argue… Read more >
Hungary 1945-2020: Shoes along the River Danube
By Trevor Grundy February 11, 2020 Jews in Hungary are this week remembering the “liberation” of Budapest after a 50-day siege by the Red Army 75 years… Read more >
Denis Norman 1931-2019: The Odd (White) Man In Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
Picture shows: John Laurie, President of the CFU with June and Denis Norman in Harare (Picture: Alexander Joe) By TREVOR GRUNDY Family and friends gathered at All Saints Church at… Read more >
Guy Arnold, leading British anti-apartheid activist, dies at the age of 87
By TREVOR GRUNDY The British explorer, writer, scholar and anti-apartheid campaigner Guy Arnold died in London on Saturday January 4. He was 87. Arnold was a prolific author and journalist… Read more >
Forty years ago in Mozambique – a death that changed the face of post-Independence Zimbabwe
By TREVOR GRUNDY Forty years ago on December 26 the man who led the forces of ZANLA throughout Chimurenga Two never made it home from exile. At the… Read more >
Death of Denis Norman in England
Denis Norman 1931-2019 Denis Norman, Zimbabwe’s first minister of agriculture after Independence in 1980, has died in Oxfordshire, England (Friday December 20) after a long battle against… Read more >
Hot spots and danger zones in the age of climate change
An Environmental History of India – From earliest times to the Twenty-First Century by Michael H. Fisher (Cambridge University Press, 2018 /301 pp./£21.99) Trevor Grundy on an unsettling book… Read more >