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...
All the talk from Ukraine at the moment is of the much anticipated ‘Counter Offensive’. Back in 1900, the Boers found themselves in a similar position to that of Putin’s invading Russians today; a few months earlier, the Boer republics (with...
Apparently, on one of the various Boer War facebook groups, someone posted a few pictures of Imperial forces crossing the Vaal in 1900: Nothing terribly controversial, one might think, but these pictures were enough to prompt a predictably...
I have a deep, and entirely rational, hatred of soccer, and of play-acting, Alice-band-wearing, prima-donna soccer players. Imagine my snort of derision, therefore, when I read an article in the Telegraph, about some Argentinian player who was so...
I recently read another brilliant myth-busting article by the indefatigable Dr Bruce Gilley – a man clearly on a mission to shatter the self-loathing nonsense which most people choose to believe about the Colonial period in these painfully woke...
A fellow called Peter Dickens writes an excellent blog called ‘The Observation Post’, which is well worth taking a look at: www.samilhistory.com. Mr Dickens writes on a variety of conflicts, but I find his articles about the Boer War especially...
Though separated by many thousands of miles, there are some remarkable parallels between the history of Texas, and that of the Transvaal. The vast territory of Texas had been tentatively settled during the long period of the Spanish Imperial rule...
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy...
They say that the only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about, so I suppose I should be happy that a certain class of fool still feels the need to bad-mouth me on social media. Apparently, on one of the various Boer War...
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