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On the Egyptian putsch 6 Jul 2013 | 06:01 pm
Following the ouster of Mohammed Morsi on Thursday there have been quite a few people who, without necessarily supporting the putsch, have helpfully pointed out that it takes more than 'mere elections...
On the Syrian civil war 17 Jun 2013 | 03:13 am
That civil wars, understood as those which take place within the borders of a single country, never remain like that for long is a point well made by the criminally under-read Peter Ryley. With Syria...
On the genealogy of conspiracy theories 11 Jun 2013 | 04:18 am
"The conspiracy theory of society", Karl Popper said, "comes from not believing in God and then asking: what it in His place?" I prefer a Manichean modification where God is replaced with the devil b...
D-Day 6 Jun 2013 | 03:19 am
Four out of five of the Wehrmacht troops killed during the Second World War perished on the Eastern Front in Hitler's 'war of annihilation'. But the average losses per division on both sides in an eq...
Knowledge vs skills 16 May 2013 | 03:49 am
I don't want to say too much about the debate currently going on in England about education, partly because it doesn't apply to me and also because I'm increasingly of the view that one would be more ...
Berlin, 1945 8 May 2013 | 03:09 am
On the 20th of April, 1945 the Red Army sent the Fuhrer a birthday present in the form of an artillery barrage, the tonnage of which equalled that dropped by the RAF and the USAAF combined. The shell...
On Thatcher's funeral 17 Apr 2013 | 04:22 am
I didn't find anything to disagree with what Norm wrote on the subject and in the same vein I have two thesis, for neither of which would I claim any originality: 1) My maternal grandfather, who was ...
Thatcher's unintended legacy 9 Apr 2013 | 05:39 am
Around the time of the miners' strike, I was convinced Thatcher was a fascist and Britain was turning into a police state. It was about the time that I was thought that sitting in Kelvingrove park li...
People losing their damn minds #29 7 Mar 2013 | 04:30 am
From the Hootsmon: "Excessive hierarchy must become a thing of the past. Upward communication must be encouraged and constructive criticism should be positively received." The remedy for this is, app...
On teaching history 5 Mar 2013 | 04:31 am
Historians attack Gove. Oh, hang on - they back Gove. Actually they seem a little divided on Gove's plan to eliminate the Victorians as a topic by recreating it in 21st century English classrooms. ...
