This is a brief 2,500-year history of how Jews, pagans and atheists made Christmas the definitive celebration of Western Civilisation. It is rather a strange

The Daily Friend is rerunning some of our most-read articles over the festive season. The instruction by South Africa’s cricket authorities that national team players must kneel

European supermarkets recently put the kibosh on Brazilian beef, because some of it may be tainted by deforestation. This is a poorly-directed gesture that will

This article was first published on 8 April 2021. Certain events have passed but the article is still pertinent to us going into 2022 [Ed.]

This is the second part of of the article which appeared as Part I on Tuesday 21 December 2021. A study of 68 countries and

This article appears in two parts because of its length. Part II will be published tomorrow Wednesday 22 December 2021. A few weeks ago, a

Manfred Gans caused consternation when he used his Bar Mitzvah speech in April 1935 in a small town in Germany to denounce the Nazis. He

Ivo Vegter, in the Daily Friend, 9 November 2021, launched a 2 169-word attack on my article about the “demented war against Ivermectin” (my words,

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past.. 10th December – 16th December   11th December 861 – Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by

In an article on how palmitic acid supports metastasis of selected cancers, The Guardian singles out palm oil as a culprit. This is environmental activism,