The last of Alexander the Great
Colin Farrell (Alexander) & Jared Leto (Hephaistion) in a scene from the movie Alexander the Great by Oliver Stone On a stifling June day in Babylon, 2334 years ago, Alexander of Macedon died. [...]
Every head in the trough
Mariano Rajoy recently promised a long list of reforms that he will implement, he says, when he becomes President of the Government. Most thinking Spaniards hope he is being truthful. The cost of running modern [...]
The Korean War 1950-1953
Moment of solitude during the Korean War / warhistoryonline.com All wars are bloody, some are found to be unnecessary after the event. The Great War (1914 – 18) was unnecessary and could have [...]
Henry II and Thomas Becket
Henry II “Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?” Henry II, King of England (1133 – 89) succeeded King Stephen in 1154. Henry was not Stephen’s son, but took the throne because [...]
Encounters of the socialist kind
Since earning the right to, I used to vote if I voted at all, for the Labour Party. I was young and thoughtful, and Fabian ideas seemed correct to me for half of my life. [...]
Sir Winston Churchill
In other sections of this history blog can be found brief lives of Franklin Roosevelt (All American Presidents) and Joseph Stalin. Joined by Churchill at a number of special meetings at the end of the [...]
Three English medieval mafiosi
Anwick, ancient home of the Percies / facebook.com All three descended from Norman knights who accompanied the bastard Duke of Normandy in the successful invasion of England. Once established as William I (The [...]
Speaking of Cuts
This Spanish government is fond of making cuts. They have cut deeply into civil servants’ monthly wage packet, and frozen older people’s pension. But, strange to speak, they have not decreased the 189% tax on [...]
Unemployed youth in Spain
Spain’s President of the Government, was recently loose (but sadly not lost) in China trying to sell a chunk of Spain’s debt to the canny Chinese. This must be the nth mistake in his disastrous [...]
Oxford and Cambridge: The future depends on Independence
In a country like the United Kingdom where there are already far too many universities with few and fewer applicants, the names Oxford (founded c. 1150) and Cambridge (founded c. 1209) should mean more than [...]
New Zealand
An old saying claims that stability, common sense and national pride is obviously paramount in those countries that hardly ever appear in the news programmes. This adage might not have proven correct in the case [...]
Skin Care Parody
What follows is a parody of the kind of health article published in a lesser quality English magazine or newspaper: Skin care: Our medical correspondent corresponds We must learn to look after our skin. Our [...]
The Oldies of Great Britain
People live much longer than they used to. When I was a child, just before the beginning of the 2nd Punic War, it was rare indeed to have a grandparent even in their seventies. The [...]
Don’t do anything
This government doesn’t do much either; while the public is prohibited from everything except paying taxes, Mr Zapatero’s crew have discovered a wonderful way to force legislation on an unwilling public – without the bother [...]
History of Afghanistan
Capital: Kabul Area: 652,225 sq. km. Population: nearly 23 million Religions: Sunni Muslim 93% and Shiite Muslim 7%. Ethnic Groups: Pathan (Pashto), Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara, Chahar Aimak, Turkmen, Baluchi Afghanistan belongs to the United Nations [...]
The Indian Mutiny: a brief resumé
Breakout at Lucknow / riflesmuseum.co.uk It is innaccurate of many writers to talk of a ‘surprising revolt of the Indian Army’. The Indian Mutiny (1857-8) was an uprising of the Army of Bengal, [...]
The American Empire
It would be best to establish from the start that the present writer is not anti-American: quite the opposite in fact; but this proven fact does not prevent said writer from managing to see things [...]
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