Blogging from the Hay Festival 2016 – How decadent and depraved were the early Roman emperors?
If you’ve been brought up with the impressive BBC adaptation of Robert Graves ‘I, Claudius’ then you will have been left with the distinct…
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Blogging from the Hay Literary Festival 2016. AC Grayling – The Age of Genius.
Occasionally I’m lucky enough to be able to get to the Hay Festival and hear various authors, politicos and thinkers put their point of view…
From Elsewhere: It’s time to drop the ‘T’.
This is the first of two ‘From Elsewhere’ pieces that I’m putting up today that concern issues of sexuality and gender. The first, is…
History time. Tankies, trots and true believers
If there is one general difference that divides the political Left and the political right then it could be that too often the Left behaves…
A bit of historical enlightenment.
(An electronic translation of this article into Hebrew and Yiddish can be found below the English Language version – I apologise in advance for the…
From elsewhere: School History lessons become Leftist propaganda.
I find the Conservative Woman blog an interesting, if sometimes challenging read. It’s well written and even when I don’t personally agree with their writers,…
A tale of two cultures. Which one would you choose?
There is a joke that has been going round recently, which goes as follows: Question: What is the difference between the Western world and the…
Remembering old battles against a modern foe.
This blog is a few days late with this particular historical commemoration, because the anniversary slipped past me, until I was kindly reminded of it…
On the 98th anniversary of the Battle of the Somne
Remembering those who fought, died and were wounded at the Batte of the Somne. The 1st July is the anniversary of the start of the…
The Germans – Britain’s mostly forgotten but eventually very successfully integrated immigrant wave.
(Because this article concerns German immigration to the United Kingdom I have put an electronic translation of this article into German below for the benefit…
