Quote of the Day 18th October 2026 -A history lesson from a very angry Greek.
In apparent response to a Lefty on X highlighting things like the crimes of Hitler and Stalin, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and…
history
860 years ago.
Yesterday, October 14th, 860 years ago, a bunch of foreigners invaded England and defeated its king and his army. The result of this defeat…
Eugenics. Who said this?
Here’s a little game to play. Here are some quotes from various people on the subject of eugenics. Eugenics as many will understand is…
From Elsewhere: A good bit of archive digging and solid investigative journalism from the German Press.
I’m not old enough to have been around at the time of the trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann the Nazi functionary who sent…
History doesn’t repeat itself but it sometimes rhymes.
About 102 years ago there was a Democratic Party Convention that had such a high number, 300, of delegates who were associated with the…
It’s the USA’s 250th birthday so I thought about places and things that American visitors to the UK should see.
Should I suddenly become very lucky and not have the UK police knocking on my door for a ‘speech crime’ for a change and…
Roy Hattersley – My small part in the downfall of his party at the 1987 election.
Lord Roy Hattersley, a giant of the Labour Party has died at the age of 93. He served as Secretary of State for Prices…
Guest Post – Relations between Christians and Jews in medieval England was not what you might expect.
There is somewhat of a standard history of Jews in England in the 13th century and it goes like this: Jew-hating Kings and Queens…
From Elsewhere: More happened in 1776 than just the American Revolution.
There’s an excellent piece that’s worth reading over at the Critic magazine regarding what it is like to live through a period of momentous…
From Elsewhere: A return to Britain of the 1970’s could be on the cards but in a far far worse way.
Britain’s decline is now so obvious that not only does it attract negative comment from the US government but there are increasingly those, myself…
