The Facebook group set up for colourised Boer War photos seems to have attracted some of the thickest and most fanatical True Believers, so one is guaranteed a good deal of self-pitying nonsense from them. Recently, this photo was posted: To a...
Apparently there’s a very stupid person who loiters around in the various Facebook Boer War echo chambers, and rather pathetically seeks to dismiss all my writing and research by pretending that I am ‘a journalist’. Needless to say, I am not, but...
Life can be unpredictable, but there are still a few near-certainties… the sun will rise in the East tomorrow morning, England will always lose to Germany in a penalty shoot-out, and John Elsegood will continue to humiliate himself by posting...
The sheer delusional stupidity and ignorance of True Believers is always amusing, but a couple of them recently took things to new heights of entertainment. On one of the various Boer War Facebook echo chambers, a fellow Jopie de Beer made this...
I recently read Anthony Beevor’s excellent ‘Arnhem – the Battle for the Bridges 1944’. It is up to his usual brilliant standards, and well worth a look. There was one particular section that I found especially interesting: Outside the perimeter...
After decades of no one really challenging the self-pitying Apartheid-regime version, from about 2005, things started to collapse for the lovers of Boer War Myths, with several propaganda-busting books bursting on to the scene. Perhaps most...
‘If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie...
I was recently made aware of an entertaining exchange which happened on one of the Boer War Facebook groups. As normal, it began with someone banging away on his little drum of self-pity, moaning about Scorched Earth and ‘the Camps’ again. This...
Taking a short break from my normal articles, I thought it would be fun to expose just how utterly deranged the more fanatical True Believers are, and to use some of their own crazed outbursts so to do. As regular readers of this blog will know...
‘…as the Transvaal is almost entirely surrounded by British territory, this large expenditure can have no other explanation than an anticipation of war, or an intention of aggression against this country, and its supremacy in South Africa.’ Major...
I was recently made aware of an exchange on one of the Facebook Boer War discussion groups, where an especially ignorant True Believer was making made a complete fool of himself once again. To get a bit of context of just what an utter clown, and...
‘When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?’ Attributed to economist, John Maynard Keynes[1] Whether or not Keynes actually said this[2], it is nevertheless an excellent approach to study and, indeed, to life in...
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