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Christmas in Britain 2020: Hungry children walk in the footsteps of Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist
Scrooge ( disguised as the multi-millionaire Jacob Rees-Mogg) gives Tiny Tim and his crutches made by Unicef a good kicking in Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. (Cartoon in The Times… Read more >
John Lennon (1940-1980) – A world without countries and no religion, too
A wall painting of John Lennon in Prague where the British musician is idolised by the old and young – Picture: Trevor Grundy by Trevor Grundy For many… Read more >
Giuseppe Garibaldi – A hero of two worlds
Garibaldi is best known for his invasion and conquest of Sicily in 1860 and his life-long fight for Italian unity. Not so well- known is the way he spent… Read more >
Boris Johnson’s ‘loose language’ is putting millions of Scots on the road towards Independence
Prime Minister of an Independent Scotland in-waiting? – A cartoon of the Scottish National Party’s increasingly popular leader, Nicola Sturgeon By Trevor Grundy Boris Johnson has been told by… Read more >
Commonwealth Watch: Move to close vital studies unit infuriates academics around the world
Professor Philip Murphy, respected academic and Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (Picture: Trevor Grundy) COMMONWEALTH WATCH By Trevor Grundy Academics from around the world are… Read more >
Malcolm X had dealings with the Ku Klux Klan but Julius Nyerere said “no” to a black state in USA
Malcolm X started life as a small-time crook who hated whites but a visit to Mecca changed his views about race By Trevor Grundy The Black Lives Matter… Read more >
JIM SINCLAIR 1938-2020: Courageous farmer who lived through good and bad times in Zimbabwe
Prime Minister Robert Mugabe presenting Jim Sinclair, President of the CFU, with the coveted 1981 Communicator of the Year Award (Picture by Alexander Joe) By Mike Rook and… Read more >
Covid-19 inspires Zimbabwean photographer to think-up a new way of staging exhibitions
Zimbabwe’s Alexander Joe by Trevor Grundy When Alexander Joe retired after working in Africa for over thirty years, he went to Madagascar with his wife and told friends that… Read more >
Patsy Robertson (1933-2020) Tributes paid to one of the Commonwealth’s greatest communicators
Patsy Robertson at a Commonweakth meeting in London in 2007 (Picture: Trevor Grundy) By Trevor Grundy Patsy Robertson, the former Jamaican journalist who went on to become the official… Read more >
Britain should apologise to Zimbabwe’s ‘little people’ for sucking-up to a mass slaughterer in 1986
“But he was not there. He does not know what happened. He (Benito Mussolini after his invasion of Greece) does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought… Read more >