Salil Gewali The recent military actions by the United States against Venezuela are deeply troubling. They mayset a dangerous precedent. Acting under the stated rationale of narcoterrorism and governancedisputes, the U.S. launched strikes involving over 150 aircraft and captured Venezuela’s leader andhis wife. The images of Nicolás Maduro and his wife in handcuffs laid bare…
It was July 1995. I landed at Belfast City Airport and made my way to a small B & B just off the Beersbridge Road for a five-day break, which included the annual Twelfth parades through the city. I was already familiar with Belfast, having been on several occasions to watch the Loyal Orders on…
A few days ago, I was reminiscing about a trip my family and I took to Austria in the summer of 1987. We travelled overnight by coach from London to Innsbruck (due to my late Nan’s almost pathological fear of flying), and spent 10 memorable days in villages on the southern slopes of the magnificent…
Let’s take a walk down the Rabbit-Hole of the MSM, better yet, or even worse depending on your view “The British MSM”. The Brit MSM is worse in a lot ways than even “The American MSM”, but they write with an accent. They also have an out of wack view of American’s, as do most…
One of the things that always makes me cringe when I’m watching an international football match between England and Germany is the crass behaviour of many of the England fans. If they’re not singing ’10 German Bombers’, they’re making stupid references to the Nazis, or else claiming with great gusto on how “England won the…
After a stressful week, I came home last night wanting some light comedic relief. So I decided to watch one of my favourite episodes of the classic ‘Fawlty Towers’ series entitled ‘The Builders’. The plot revolves around Basil employing the services of a cowboy Irish builder called O’Reilly, whose men proceed to make a number…
My career, over the last 27 or so years, has been in the field of disability healthcare and leisure provision. This sometimes involves taking people with severe physical difficulties out on activities and visits for the day. On Tuesday (w/c 19/08/2024), I booked a slot for a wheelchair user at the National Railway Museum in…
By Martin Cruttwell What is a vote? “By dividing people through the party system, we can achieve what has been so well planned” Bankers Magazine of America 1924. When Prof. Matt Goodwin’s substack asks “What has happened to our political class” the answer is they have retired. The old controllers of the “collective” who had…
They attempted to curtail the rise of the AfD in Germany (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-69003733) and mooted a possible ban. Macron is apparently considering the use of emergency powers in the event Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National party wins the forthcoming national plebiscite in France (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-macron-considering-using-frances-emergency-powers/). In the United States, a politicised court has stymied Donald Trump’s desire…
SALIL GEWALI What we encounter in textbooks often shapes our beliefs. Having grown up reading about the ‘Aryan Invasion Theory’ from my early school days, I too continued to believe that Hinduism was not native to India. As all school students in India, I carried that belief until I came across works about the ancient…
‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ is one of my favourite wartime movies. This 1957 classic, with an ensemble cast including Sir Alec Guinness, is far more fiction than reality in terms of its depiction of the construction of the Siam–Burma Railway. Nevertheless, it is a tour de force of cinema, winning 7 Oscars including…
As always, HARD TRUTH’S David Vance and ilana Mercer arrive together at the truth about Gaza.Ilana says ( https://www.ilanamercer.com/2024/01/memory-indictment-todays-jewish-taliban-not-israel-grew/ )that it is inarguable: The case against Israel’s murder spree in Gaza is ethically simple, and not within the realm of opinion. It is immutable, eternal truth that: Right and wrong are universal, not relative. There are no…
Last Saturday, December 9th, my best friend and I took our annual Christmas jaunt to London. It’s become something of a tradition, even though we’re now getting to the age where a city of over 9 million people is more of a chore than an enjoyment. On this occasion, we decided to avoid Central London…
Ever since Boris Johnson was unceremoniously dumped out of the Conservatives, our governing party has been making a concerted effort to alienate itself from the voter coalition that put it into power with an impressive 80-seat majority just four years ago. It will insist on hammering nail after nail into its electoral coffin – with…
I first heard of GB News whilst on holiday in Torquay in May 2021. It was towards the tail end of the COVID19 hysterical and freedom-denying nightmare known as the ‘pandemic’. Not content with condemning two of the most travel-hungry individuals in the world to a week on the self-styled ‘English Riviera’, fate also ensured…