This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 16th August 1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom
Reinfection protection vs vaccine protection
Professors at internationally respected institutions mislead on vaccines versus reinfection protection. I was scheduled for a vaccination on Tuesday, 10 August. For someone my age,
Afghanistan’s Fall to the Taliban: The Consequences of Long Wars
The scenes of desperate Afghans trying to escape the Taliban by clinging to aeroplanes and then falling to their deaths after take-off shows part of
An insecure, paranoid government is dangerous
Rumours of rioting, insurrection, insurgency, and even a coup, can have grave consequences even if they’re not true. The less secure the government feels, the
Barbara Creecy’s $750 billion a year sounds about right
How nice to be able for a change to praise a minister in the South African government. But Barbara Creecy is absolutely correct in demanding
The Ideal and the Actual
The swirling zeitgeist of excuses, postponements, delays, denials and ‘I didn’t know’s from the top of the greasy political pole these past weeks came close
Beating bigotry
‘(There) is … in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers of society over the individual, both by the force
The Fallist Riots and the Insurrection
If a group of people was able to cause this much violence, damage and death with no consequences, there will be nothing to stop it
An assault on science by climate alarmists
The worst thing about the latest climate report (Assessment Report 6 or AR6) of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is not that
There is a sickness abroad
There is a sickness abroad in the land: the government’s obsession with demographic representivity. It is not only a false premise that every activity should