
Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 1
I have long wanted to write about Thucydides, widely regarded as the greatest historian of the ancient world and, as far as we know, only the second of the discipline after Herodotus’ account of the [more…]
I have long wanted to write about Thucydides, widely regarded as the greatest historian of the ancient world and, as far as we know, only the second of the discipline after Herodotus’ account of the [more…]
“Corona False Alarm? Facts & Figures”, Dr Karina Reiss & Dr Sucharit Bhakdi. This very timely work was first published in German at the end of June 2020. The English translation, published in September of [more…]
Amanda Foreman is the British/American daughter of American film-maker Carl Foreman (Bridge on the River Kwai, High Noon). Carl Foreman moved to England from Hollywood during the McCarthy era; he had been blacklisted and his [more…]
As GP has recently turned into an alternative source of information for the motoring enthusiast, I thought I would join Always Worth Saying and Phil the Test Manager in writing a motoring review. We took [more…]
A while ago this reviewer attended a lecture. The subject was ten books that had changed the world. Delivered by Melvyn Bragg, author of a work of the same name, having been talked through three [more…]
The subtitle of this book is ‘the true story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s forgotten sister, and the heir to Chatsworth’, although personally I think the title ‘forgotten sister’ might be more accurately applied to JFK’s [more…]
I read David Sedgwick’s first book about the BBC, ‘BBC: Brainwashing Britain?’ (the Kindle version) when it came out in December 2018 and was immediately nodding and mouthing ‘yes, yes, yes’ at virtually every page. [more…]
Some books can influence the way we view the world, perhaps we read them at a particularly impressionable time in our lives. Perhaps when we are young or going through some form of major crisis [more…]
Readers of this website might have heard about my recently published critique of the BBC, ‘The Fake News Factory: Tales from BBC-land’ a fruity and occasionally witty expose of the UK’s thoroughly dishonest state propaganda [more…]
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