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British Foreign Office told Tony Blair not to use force to get rid of Robert Mugabe
Until his overthrow in November 2017 Zimbabweans were told to hang pictures of Mugabe in their offices and have pictures of him hanging from their walls at home and wear… Read more >
Mitford Misfits – TV drama shows ‘gels’ like Diana and Unity just wanna have fun. Pity about the Nazis.
Unity Mitford and Diana Mosley with the Nazis they believed would protect them, and their class, from Communism The literary critic Erica Wagner said in The Observer ( June… Read more >
Time for action as Jew and Muslim hate spreads like wildfire
On-line race hate is spreading throughout the world and scenes like this becoming more and more common. Bondi Beach last Sunday has made comforting words about how we must… Read more >
New Archbishop of Canterbury must deal with another possible abuse case in scandal hit Church of England
Sarah Mullally – The first woman Bishop of London and soon to be the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury On January 28 next year the Right Rev Dame… Read more >
Monarchy after Andrew: Royal ‘watchdogs’ bark – but do any of them know how to snarl and bite?
Andrew, born with a golden spoon in his cot which, as an adult, he found hard to keep in his pocket seen here with his shopaholic ex-wife, ‘Fergie’ Ferguson. … Read more >
UDI November 11, 1965: Sixtieth anniversary of Ian Smith’s act of defiance that changed the face of southern Africa
Rich men, in a warm place, sign a document of rebellion against Britain watched over by a poster of Queen Elizabeth 11 in Salisbury on 11 November, 1965 .Picture was… Read more >
From Scotland with Love: A moving story of an aid agency born at the time the former Yugoslavia was tearing itself apart.
A book that tells how the people who worked for Edinburgh Direct Aid helped the homeless and the and hopeless re-build their lives in war-torn Bosnia. It will… Read more >
The Palestinians: Re-issue of a book that tells of a struggle by people to return to a land they lost in 1948
Don McCullin, his camera and his dedication showed the world how ghastly life can be for so many. In 1980, the broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby and the photo-journalist Don McCullin… Read more >
Elections in Tanzania: A trail of blood leading to more arrests and disappearances
Will Hassan win the October 29 election. Is the Pope a Catholic? Samia Suluhu Hassan was inaugurated as Tanzania’s first woman president in 2021 following the death of John… Read more >
Hatred of Jews is on the rise but where did this all begin?
Jews were persecuted in so many different parts of Christian England in the Middle Ages Israel’s military actions in Gaza which some describe as Genocide have led to an… Read more >