There was an interesting letter in the Telegraph recently, which highlighted just how blinkered and stubborn certain academics are, and how determined they are to resist anything that challenges how they prefer to view historical events: It is...
Apparently a new word has entered the lexicon of the True Believers: ‘Ashism’. I am told that certain fanatical Defenders of the Myth have taken to using it on social media and, obviously, I am flattered to have so impacted their lives, that they...
Like most of us, the first book I read on the Boer War was Thomas Pakenham’s ‘The Boer War’. And like most of us, I initially bought the bullshit version that Pakenham was selling. Thirty years, and a few hundred other books...
It was reassuring to read that, almost two years after Russia invaded the Ukraine, Cyril Ramaphosa has finally gained a ‘better understanding’ of Moscow’s blatant aggression and expansionism: Though it is tempting to mock him for this belated...
George Orwell observed once that, ‘one of the marks of anti-Semitism is an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true’. While by no means as serious or unpleasant as antisemitism, I would nevertheless venture that a similar...
Those deluded fools on the lunatic fringe of extreme Right-wing Afrikanerdom are well beyond any rational debate, but when it comes to the Boer War, it always intrigues me how others who are (allegedly) educated / intelligent / liberal /...
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