The Observer, the sister newspaper to The Guardian, has recently published an article that attacks Israel journalists for, of all things, promoting Israeli’s victory in its war on Hamas. In an article titled “‘Journalists see their role as helping to win’: how Israeli TV is covering Gaza war,” Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum complain how […]
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(Photograph: VisitCopenhagen, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) According to opinion polls, most Australians wish to remove the British monarch as their head of state and become a republic. Thus, in anticipation of their glorious revolution, if and whenever that will be, King Charles does not appear on Australian banknotes. During their broadcast of
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The only time I have seen a celebrity in the flesh was on Cambridge’s Trumpington Street. I had gone to the bank one Saturday lunchtime to withdraw cash and on returning to my college, there, walking towards me, was the tall, expansive figure of Stephen Fry. As one who had laughed along with millions of
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Recently, Douglas Murray ruminated in The Spectator as to what one might mean by the phrase ‘deep England’. His meditations were sparked by recalling General de Gaulle’s speech to the Free French that deployed the phrase ‘la France profonde’ to stir up resistance to the Nazi occupiers. French partisans were to fight for what is quintessentially
When George Bush Jr sent his troops into Iraq back in 2003, his declared motive was the extirpation of Saddam Hussein’s WMDs and the elimination of Iraqi-sponsored terrorism. The Left dismissed his demarche as a cynical desire to annex Iraq’s oil reserves. Millions of anti-war protesters marched in capitals across sixty nations. Yet, now that Nicolas
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As a fifteen-year-old studying for O Level in History some forty years ago, one of the topics I learned about was the League of Nations. This was an international structure established after the Great War to prevent more wars from erupting. It was a forerunner of today’s United Nations. I had to learn about the
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The great physicist Richard Feynman once said: “Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.” Well, it transpires that that is the case with film directors too, and Ridley Scott proves the point. When challenged about the historical inaccuracies in his recently released biopic of Napoleon, Ridley
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One of the latest examples, among the dispiriting many, of ideology taking precedence over historical truth is the row that has detonated over the claim by University College London’s Dr Jenny Bulstrode that Henry Cort, who is credited with inventing a ground-breaking iron-making process in 1784, actually stole the idea from Jamaican slaves. Bulstrode’s claim
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In a time when the commissars of English wokery, those self-flagellating haters of their own country and culture, are doing their relentless best to topple English heroes through bad history, there is something charmingly forgivable about a person defending her English hero, albeit also through bad history. To whom am I referring? Phillipa Langley, the
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Recently, the Financial Times revealed that Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ new book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics, is littered with passages lifted from other sources, including that dubious fount of knowledge, Wikipedia, without the correct acknowledgement such as quotation marks, footnotes and a bibliography. Reeves has, of course, denied plagiarism and her office has defended
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