“For the English to see”
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...
“Sorry seems to be the easiest word”
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...
Kobus humiliates himself
It’s been a while since I posted any of the rantings on Quora of those so wedded to the Apartheid-era myths, but some clown called ‘Kobus Scheepers’ brightened my afternoon today, so I thought I’d share his entertaining...
News24: Trusted News, and Fabricated History
The South African website, News24, likes to boast that it provides: ‘Trusted News. First’. Whether or not that is indeed the case, the following article proves they also provide: ‘Fabricated History. Too’...
‘Secret Beginnings’: a glimpse into the fevered mind of a True Believer
As if we needed more proof of just how ignorant and mentally-deranged the average True Believer is, then a lengthy WhatsApp rant which is flying about should provide it (please note that I have left the spelling mistakes / punctuation errors in...
“Great results can be achieved with small forces” – Sun Tzu
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 Cult of Boer War Mythology
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...
Kruger: the man, the myth, the movie
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...
Cautionary Tales, podcast
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...
The Donkey and the Tiger
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...
Counter Offensives: 1900 and 2023
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...
“Devastating and Subjugating!”
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...