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...
With the (long, long overdue) announcement that HM Government is finally going to, begrudgingly, start spending a bit more of Defence, the Telegraph carried various articles on the subject today. I have shared a similar graph to the one they used...
‘…the Iron Dome makes it easier for the West to turn a blind eye to endless attempted war crimes by Iran’s proxies. If an Iran-funded missile fired at Israeli civilian centres is intercepted and doesn’t kill anybody, we can pretend it never...
‘In every war a certain number of cliches spring up based on impressions at the time, which offer a facile explanation of events and which also pander to national sentiment and the self-esteem of its great national leaders. But with the passage...
I am informed that a debate is raging on one of the Boer War Facebook discussion groups (echo chambers?), after someone dared to post a link to a recent article in which I shattered the self-serving, but much-cherished, myths of the British army...
One of the favourite squawks of the True Believers – even, indeed, from so-called academic ones – is that the poor old, totally innocent, Boers were ‘forced’ to invade Natal and the Cape Colony because the dastardly scheming Brits were ‘massing...
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