Like most of us, the first book I read on the Boer War was Thomas Pakenham’s ‘The Boer War’. And like most of us, I initially bought the bullshit version that Pakenham was selling. Thirty years, and a few hundred other books...
It was reassuring to read that, almost two years after Russia invaded the Ukraine, Cyril Ramaphosa has finally gained a ‘better understanding’ of Moscow’s blatant aggression and expansionism: Though it is tempting to mock him for this belated...
George Orwell observed once that, ‘one of the marks of anti-Semitism is an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true’. While by no means as serious or unpleasant as antisemitism, I would nevertheless venture that a similar...
Those deluded fools on the lunatic fringe of extreme Right-wing Afrikanerdom are well beyond any rational debate, but when it comes to the Boer War, it always intrigues me how others who are (allegedly) educated / intelligent / liberal /...
On this day, back in 1899, republican forces invaded British territory, starting the Boer War. Outnumbering the scattered Imperial garrisons, the invading Commandos advanced deep into Natal and the Cape Colony, enjoying a looting spree and soon...
Baron Roberts of Belgravia / Andrew Roberts FRSL FRHistS is one of the leading historians of the modern age, and also serves as a Member of the House of Lords. He earned a First in modern history from Cambridge, then added a PhD and has since...
Propagandists universally justify the use of military violence by portraying it as morally defensible and necessary. To do otherwise would jeopardize public morale and faith in the government and its armed forces… propagandists disguised military...
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to...
Whether or not Mahatma Gandhi really said: ‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win’ is debatable, but it is a great quote nonetheless. Now, I would be the first to admit that I have little in common with...
The Boer Invasion of the Zulu Kingdom, 1837-1840 by Professor John Laband I recently read the fairly-new book by Professor Laband, detailing the Boer invasion of the Zulu Kingdom, and would recommend it highly. Most interesting for me is that...
As the world continues to go insane and there are increasingly shrill calls from woke cretins for Britain to pay ‘compensation’ to everyone for everything, I found this article in the Telegraph interesting...
Like any one else with a brain, I find the modern-day obsession of ‘apologising’ for things done by our ancestors – sometimes centuries before we were even born – to be ridiculous. This completely pointless, vacuous virtue-signaling by...
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