Hurrah for the Blackshirts!
It Can’t Happen Here On the morning of April 9th 1940 mum’s cousin, Bjørg, got out of bed to celebrate her eleventh birthday. That wasn’t the only event to make the … Continue reading
Independent Voices?
If my comments on the astounding ignorance shown in an editorial on Turkey and the Middle East published in yesterday’s Independent needed any proof it came today from nowhere other than … Continue reading
The Independent huffs and puffs on war
“Anyone who never made a mistake never made anything” goes one of Albert Einstein’s most famous quotes. No, it doesn’t; I just checked, and I was wrong. Einstein actually said: “A person who … Continue reading
Double, double, toil and trouble… the cauldron of Kiev
Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble … Trying to figure out what’s really happening in Ukraine, from what passes as news these days, is akin to putting a … Continue reading
Record 101% response to YouGov Ukraine poll in UK
It’s just over a year since Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev, following an illegal coup on February 22th 2014. Ever since the beginning of the affair, the entire Western world’s press could’ve been … Continue reading
How The Guardian Changes History
There is something a little disturbing about that, as to judge from the photo he would’ve had to have been driving one of the armoured vehicles in the convoy, or riding in it. Yet according to Roland Oliphant of The Telegraph, he and Walker had spotted a Russian armoured convoy …
Shaun Walker is caught invading Ukraine by his own camera!
Some of you might remember an article I wrote on Guardian journalist, Shaun Walker last August: Shaun ‘wish I’d brought my camera’ Walker. Today The Guardian uses the same article by Walker … Continue reading
Edward Snowden: A Truly Free Man
NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN, many unsung American heroes still lie buried beneath battlefields throughout the world. Especially on my own continent, Europe. They are the unknown soldiers, whose remains, or … Continue reading
Bryan Hemming 