London & The World – SLR
Simon Lincoln Reader It was only because of a lovely old seamstress called Martha – and my friend Grant’s restaurant – that I didn’t bomb the shops in Parkview when…
Letters to Lord David Owen
by Hannes Wessels I publish the correspondence below because I think it will be of interest to people wanting to better understand Rhodesian and Zimbabwean political history but also because…
SOS – Steve on Sunday
SOS Steve on Sunday 14 March 2021 Greetings my fellow strugglers and stragglers, It has been quite an amazing week or so since the country reverted to a Level 1…
Poor Meghan, Michelle and Serena.
I have not been able to watch the full Meghan Markle/Oprah interview because I’m prone to nausea and she makes me feel unwell. I’m also a poor judge of people…
SOS – Steve On Sunday
SOS Steve on Sunday 7 March 2021 Greetings my cheerful fellow oldies and not so oldies, What a week for those of us who are still hanging on in the…
An analysis of the thinking behind #WhitesMustPay
By Simon Lincoln Reader Yesterday Beijing24 took a painful one. It wasn’t the usual sloppy remark or outrage porn or crisis acting passed off as analytical commentary, but the logical…
SOS – Steve On Sunday
SOS Steve on Sunday 28 February 2021 Greetings my fellow happy taxpayers, Today, and the previous two days in South African history are quite some days. On 27 February 1881…
A Letter to Lord David Owen
by Hannes Wessels An acquaintance, having read my book, ‘A Handful of Hard Men’ which covered the Rhodesian war, the SAS and the political context of the time, penned a…
SOS – Steve On Sunday
SOS Steve on Sunday 21 February 2021 Greetings my fellow strugglers, Well, that’s St Valentine’s Day once again done and dusted, the umpteenth time in five decades that I have…
Extreme Perfidy
by Hannes Wessels As far as I can ascertain I don’t have any British blood running through my veins. My family has been in Africa for almost 400 years so…