A Free Country, Stick and Stones and the Inevitable Salvation of the British People.
Recently, I was prompted to recall a conversation I had as a child with my parents during the ‘Cold War’ period in which my parents explained to me and my siblings the differences between the oppression that once existed in Nazi Germany and which still existed in the Soviet Union and the freedoms that we enjoyed here, in pre-war and early post-war Britain. Key among those differences were freedom of belief, freedom of expression and…
Mandela, a Role Model?
By Max Musson: Following last nights extended TV news coverage, the front pages of today’s newspapers prominently feature headline news articles announcing the death of Nelson Mandela and the beginning of several days of mourning that will see every current world leader and every extant ex-world leader gushing in fulsome praise of every aspect of the great man’s being. Nelson Mandela we will be endlessly reminded, was a man who through his unwavering determination, great…