BEST WE FORGET THE GREAT BETRAYAL

On the sombre occasion of Remembrance Sunday, the nation selectively remembered. Airbrushed from the occasion the 26,121 Rhodesians who fought for Britain during WWII in which 916 gave their lives. Also blue-pencilled the 784 members of the British armed forces and their families who lost their lives during […]

THE NIGHTINGALES OF EUROPEAN HISTORY

Many singers bring to mind the pathos of times past or a period of turbulence. Gracie Fields symbolised the austere but homeliness of a pre-war Britain far removed from what it has since become. Gracie lost her citizenship when, during the war in which Italy was at war […]

Stop sending young Ukrainians to die, Musk tells Zelensky

‘History will not look kindly’ on leaders who needlessly sacrifice their troops. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky must avoid needlessly sending young Ukrainians to be slaughtered on the battlefield with Russia, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said. His comments come amid Kiev’s failed counteroffensive, which Moscow claims has already […]