newsTop stories: news and views from around the world
England’s largest megalith reminds us that men worshipped the unknown thousands of years before the arrival of Christianity in Britain
A myth says that the Devil created the stone while in a raging fury that a Christian church had been built on Pagan lands belonging to him. (Picture: Trevor Grundy)… Read more >
Men Only Clubs – If only the Garrick had followed the example set by Marxist militants in Tanzania
Black power led to all clubs and societies opening up to black members in Tanzania – but it didn’t happen overnight. By Trevor Grundy So, after 193 years… Read more >
A rising tide of plastic waste is threatening sea-birds like never before
The endangered fulmar, a victim of our stupidity, greed and ignorance about wildlife By Trevor Grundy Member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) … Read more >
Britain 2011/2024: What will follow the imminent death of British and European multiculturalism?
The British Government is about to re-define what it means to be an extremist. TREVOR GRUNDY recalls that thirteen years ago, Angela Merkel and David Cameron made it clear that… Read more >
A LITTLE KNOWN FISH TAKES CENTRE STAGE IN A GROWING ROW BETWEEN BRITISH POLITICIANS AND DANISH FISHERFOLK
A puffin at Bempton Cliffs. This much loved sea bird, along with tens of thousands more, could face extinction. By Trevor Grundy BEMPTON CLIFFS, Yorkshire, England – –… Read more >
York’s Terrible Tower and the burning and slaughter of 150 Jews in March 1190
The stairway at Clifford’s Tower that leads people in 2024 back to the horrific events there in March 1190. (Picture: Trevor Grundy) By TREVOR GRUNDY YORK, England –… Read more >
Hail and farewell to Gerry Loughran – media legend and one of Kenya’s most decent of men
Obituary: Gerry Loughran (1935-2023) The British journalist who did so much to maintain high standards in post-colonial Kenya is pictured holding his book about the birth and the ups-and-downs of… Read more >
Welcome to Josef Stalin’s ‘Hotel California’ in Moscow
BOOK REVIEW: The Red Hotel -The Untold Story of Stalin’s Disinformation War by Alan Philps (Headline, 2023 pp. 464 £22.00) Review by Trevor Grundy The 4th century BC… Read more >
What would Anglican vicar who advised Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda have to say now about the spread of shoplifting throughout the UK?
John Papworth (with his kitten called Isolde) and Kenneth Kaunda in London in the early 1960s – fellow Christians and friends for life ( Picture: Trevor Grundy library) By… Read more >
Look back 70 years and remember one of the 20th century’s most obnoxious betrayals of public trust
RIP: Encounter magazine 1953-1991: The cultural-political monthly Encounter magazine was published from 1953 to 1991. Seventy years after its foundation, it is best remembered because of stunning revelations that, for… Read more >