Nicholas Lorimer
Nicholas Lorimer, a politician-turned-think tank thinker, is the IRR's Geopolitics Researcher and is host of the Daily Friend Show. His interests include geopolitics, and history (particularly medieval and ancient history). He is an unashamed Americaphile, whether it be food, culture or film. His other pursuits include video games and armchair critique of action films from the 1980s.
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This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 10th May 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 2nd of May 1611 – The King James Version of the Bible
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 26th April 1986 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 17th April 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban
How does SA’s vaccine programme compare internationally?
Much has been said about South Africa’s slow vaccine roll-out. The government has blamed ‘vaccine nationalism’ and ‘vaccine apartheid’ for the slowness of South Africa’s
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 10th April 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. Three years
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 1st April 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 25th March 1655 – Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 12th March 1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria When
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 5th March 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey