In June 1890, HM Government had declared a Protectorate over the island of Zanzibar, with one article of the agreement stating that the British Consul would have the final say in the accession of the Sultan. When the pro-British Sultan, Hamad bin...
It was the great Mark Twain who wrote, ‘It is easier to fool people, than to convince them that they have been fooled’, and it is a quote which perfectly describes the mindset of the True Believers™ that I repeatedly lock horns with. A good...
In his 1961 novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, American science-fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein, coined the word ‘Grok’. This has been variously described as meaning: “to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with” or “to...
Further to the latest woke-driven faux-outrage about a Boer War Memorial in Newcastle, there was a good article on the subject in the Telegraph today: Statues aren’t in the news as much these days. A year has passed since Colston was torn...
Another day, and another attempt by the insidious forces of political-correctness to re-write British history: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/03/boer-war-memorial-firing-line-council-deems-conflict-colonialist/ It seems that a Boer War...
Ever since I started ruffling feathers by writing ‘Kruger, Kommandos and Kak’, my books have been frantically dismissed by a certain type of South African ‘academic’. Not only did I dare to challenge their cosy, self-serving myths, but I continue...
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