The government is engaged in an active attack on our civil liberties by curtailing the right to protest—it's important to emphasise that this is being done for reasons unrelated to the pandemic, the legal changes are intended to be permanent. The police crackdown bill includes provisions to make it an offence to cause a ‘public … Continue reading The Conservatives’ New Policing Bill
Britain’s Contribution to the Defeat of Nazi Germany
The first in a series responding to Andrew Roberts' and Zewditu Gebreyohanes' paper, ‘The Racial Consequences of Mr Churchill: A Review' Roberts and Gebreyohanes make several claims about the British contribution during the Second World War in their paper. They write that Britain ‘played a central role’ in the defeat of the Nazis (p21), that … Continue reading Britain’s Contribution to the Defeat of Nazi Germany
Historical Fact and Fiction
I’m tired of the way historical fact is continually sacrificed in Britain on the altar of national mythology. A recent example of such distortion comes from Andrew Roberts and Zewditu Gebreyohanes, who have written a paper that can be found online entitled '"The Racial Consequences of Mr Churchill": A Review'. They attempt to refute various … Continue reading Historical Fact and Fiction
How the BBC Reports Foreign Policy (2/3/21)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56242610 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56253360 Today the BBC offers an interesting example of how foreign policy is reported. The headlines are 'Yemen conflict: UK cuts aid citing financial pressure from Covid’ and 'Yemen conflict: UK defends Yemeni aid cuts amid criticism from MPs’. There is no reason to doubt UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ view that the British … Continue reading How the BBC Reports Foreign Policy (2/3/21)
Notes in the Margins of the Days 