Lies, damn lies and… ‘statistics’
Imagine my amusement when I came across this question on Quora, and the answer below: How would history be different if the British had lost the Boer Wars in 1899-1902?...
Pick a number! Any number!
I was recently loaned this book by a friend, and it didn’t take long before I spotted a hilarious claim on page v: ‘It is not certain how many of the 100,000 Boer farms that were burnt, were located in the Eastern Transvaal’. As anyone who...
‘Matabele’ now available on Kindle
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Razors and Teapots
“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence” Christopher Hitchens Though popularised in the early 2000s by the journalist and writer, Christopher Hitchens, this ‘philosophical razor’ is actually an English...