There has been a great deal of ignorant and unschooled commentary surrounding the War in Ukraine. One of my favourites was watching the ever-risible Professor Pretorius tie himself in knots in a desperate (frantic? pathetic?) attempt to pretend...
The more I research and write about the Myths of the Boer War, the more I learn about those who vehemently defend them, and the more I see similarities between their crackpot worldview, and the mindset of Cult Members or Religious...
Some readers may remember that, a few years ago on a BBC TV show called ‘Question Time’, a spectacularly stupid Labour MP (is there any other sort?) made an utter fool of herself, bleating about the Concentration Camps of the Boer...
Proud to learn that my first book, ‘The If Man’, a biography of the splendidly rascally Dr Jameson, was used as the primary source material for this podcast: https://timharford.com/2023/07/the-coup-the-poet/ (and, yes: I know he...
A friend recently made me aware of a story with perfectly sums up the attitude of Defenders of the Myth: The donkey told the tiger: “The grass is blue”. The tiger replied: “No, the grass is green”. The discussion became...
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