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Zimbabwean victims of sadistic sexual abuser John Smyth bring legal claim against Church of England
John Smyth, a sadistic abuser with friends in very high Anglican church circles London, October 5 ,2025 – – – Seven Zimbabwean victims of sadistic sexual abuser… Read more >
Malawi elections: Mutharika wins again so will this be a fresh start for Malawians, or just more of the same?
President Peter Mutharika, elected to lead the people of Malawi into a brighter future. He was head of state from 2014 until 2020 , Like, Donald Trump in the USA,… Read more >
Sun City revisited as Israelis and Americans plan to turn Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East
The front-cover of The Observer on Sunday 21 September 2025, the day Britain finally recognised Palestine as a sovereign state. But the big question is this one –What is there… Read more >
Words have consequences – and don’t we all know it?
Journalist Giles Coren apologises to fellow Jews for a column he wrote in The Times diary It’s hard to believe that senior British journalists have finally discovered that… Read more >
Ruth Weiss dies at the age of 101 after a life fighting anti-Semitism in Europe and apartheid in South Africa
Ruth Weiss at a anti-apartheid seminar in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1980 (Picture: Trevor Grundy) Ruth Weiss was born in 1924 at Fuerth, near Nuremberg, the daughter if Richard Lowenthal,… Read more >
AUGUST 25, 1975: MEMORIES OF A BRIDGE OVER ONCE VERY TROUBLED WATERS
John Vorster and Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia on the morning of August 25, 1975 (Picture: Trevor Grundy archives) South Africa’s John Vorster and Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda billed it… Read more >
Anti-apartheid activists in America and Canada support people facing arrest in tomorrow’s pro-Palestine Action demos in London
Angela Davis (right) in Harare in the 1980s. Then, an activist against apartheid. Today, an outspoken opponent of Israel’s actions in Gaza. (Picture: Trevor Grundy). Reports published here warn… Read more >
Ruth Weiss – Happy birthday to a woman of courage and dignity who helped free Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa
Happy birthday Ruth Weiss – A courageous woman who celebrates her birthday in Denmark today. (Picture by Trevor Grundy soon after Zimbabwe’s Independence in 1980) Today, Saturday July… Read more >
Gaza and Nakba 2025: Historian William Dalrymple says that Britain is largely responsible for one of the biggest moral catastrophes since the Second World War
The true architects of the tragedy of Gaza 2025 are not the Israelis or the Arabs but the British, says the distinguished historian Willian Dalrymple “His Majesty’s Government view… Read more >
Women bishops wait in the wings of a church in crisis
Guli Francis-Dehqani, (Anglican) Bishop of Chelmsford, who might be the first women Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Evans of Weardale is the chairman of the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC), the… Read more >