I imagine that when Mark Zuckerberg set up Facebook, he thought it would be a fun distraction for bored office workers, a place where people could share pictures of their dinner or their cat, a handy tool to help organise reunions, or – most...
I’ve often thought it would be fun, just for a day, to see the world through the eyes of a True Believer. How bizarre it must be to be cursed with an uncontrollable urge to twist and turn, and tie oneself in knots, in a fevered – and increasingly...
As I have mentioned in a few recent blog articles, there are some striking parallels between the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and the republican invasions of British territory which started the Boer War, way back in 1899. These similarities...
I had, perhaps naively, hoped that South Africa was unique in being cursed with a few bitter, extremist, anti-British academics… until I read this...
I was recently sent this photo of Canadian troops mustering Vancouver, prior to mobilising to South Africa in the wake of Kruger’s crackpot invasions of Imperial territory: Stanley Park is in the background, and the loyalty and respect...
I was recently sent this: I have often thought that the True Believers in the Boer War myths are just ignorant, but – at least by this definition – they are actually stupid.
With the sad death of HM Queen Elizabeth II, a few deeply pathetic individuals have crawled out of the woodwork to make cruel and ill-informed comments, bizarrely delighting in the death of a 96-year-old lady. Arguably the most deranged and...
I was recently made aware that one of the more entertaining online True Believers / Defenders of the Myth has publicly conceded he cannot challenge the facts I present, the quality of my research, or the historical veracity of my writing: You...
I recently stumbled across an article in the (God-awful) Guardian from a few years ago, which offered the ’10 best revolutionaries’ in history...
It is only human to feel a pang of sympathy for the increasingly beleaguered Prof Pretorius[i], as he desperately tries to defend the indefensible. It cannot be easy to go in to bat for Kruger’s Transvaal – an extremist quasi-theocracy so...
Anyone bothering to read about the Battle of Elandslaagte will see that it is an almost perfect case-study which rebuts many of the lingering Apartheid-era myths which still surround the Boer War – and which are still much-loved by certain...
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