After four days of counting and recounting votes, Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner of Kenya’s presidential election. This is not what the British government had been hoping for.
The failed attempt by the UK to warn people off voting … Read the rest
A Brussels court has rejected a legal bid to ban “Tintin in the Congo”, the second adventure of Belgian writer Hergé’s globe-trotting boy reporter. Black associations in the country claimed the book contained racist stereotypes.
The global reach by Britain is astounding. A new study has found that at various times the British have invaded almost 90 per cent of the countries around the globe.
The analysis of the histories of the almost 200 countries … Read the rest
by George Monbiot of The Guardian
Opium, famine and banks all played their part in Britain’s plundering of the globe.
Why now? It’s not as if this is the first time Britain’s representatives have been caught out. The history of … Read the rest
Britain’s Foreign Office said it would appeal a High Court judgement on Friday that three elderly Kenyans who were tortured under British rule in the 1950s could pursue their claim for damages from London.
“The judgement has potentially significant and … Read the rest
For more than two hundred years the Afrikaans language has been attacked and marginalised in South Africa, either by the British colonial authorities or by the ANC regime. During the days of National Party rule, English was allowed to retain … Read the rest
