Things have been quiet on Quora for a bit, so I was pleased when a fellow popped up to entertain me the other day. He seemingly took exception to this response I posted a couple of weeks hence: Mr Curran (who appears to be some sort of...
It was with interest that I read an article in the Sunday Telegraph, in which various loud-mouths, morons and keyboard warriors are making a fuss about the potential wearing of the Cullinan Diamonds[i] by the Queen Consort on an upcoming State...
Ever since I realised that the Boer War is surrounded by a dense fog of myths (which are still eagerly and passionately believed by dense people), I have adopted the attitude of ‘question everything’ when it comes to history. A few days ago, in...
Just when I thought the various online True Believers could not possibly entertain me any further, I was made aware that an especially ignorant one had popped up recently, and spewed out the following utter rubbish: There is so much nonsense in...
The parallels continue between the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and Kruger’s invasions of British territory back in 1899. After an initial smattering of minor success, the Russians are being driven back, just as the invading Boers were...
As was recommended to me recently, the biography of Harry Struben, Taken at the Flood, is well worth reading[i]. Struben, along with his brother, Fred, is credited with first confirming the gold deposits of the Witwatersrand, and was a central...
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