Harry Palmer It’s been 12 years since I came across a grave in the gloomy gothic-feeling graveyard in front of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth (UK). The museum has been converted from the home, the parsonage, where the Reverend Patrick Bronte lived with his wife Maria and where
Michael Lambert Research Fellow and Director of Widening Participation, Lancaster University “For the decades of pain that you have suffered, I offer today a sincere and heartfelt and unreserved apology. We were wrong.” One year ago, on March 22 2023, the then first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, stood up at Holyrood
The University of Auckland in New Zealand was founded in 1883 as Auckland University College, initially serving as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Its humble beginnings were in a disused courthouse and jail, where it started with 95 students and 4 teaching staff. Regretfully amongst these
Remember Eric Von Daniken? The Hitler Diaries? The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? All of them were frauds which fooled a great many people for a very long time. Many people still are being willingly duped. Then there’s Bruce Pascoe. Pascoe has been resolutely exposed as a fraud.
The Doctor G. Edward Griffin’s A Creature from Jekyll Island is a book that had a great influence on me. It is the story of the creation of the US Federal Reserve system in 1913. Its creation signalled the final defeat of the people of the USA in a
Christine Christine is in England on a working holiday, gathering interviews and plenty of material for her homeschooling podcast: youtube.com/channel/UCEO Last week we visited St Albans, originally the Roman city of Verulamium. Alban became a Christian after sheltering a priest who was fleeing persecution. He was put
In my previous piece regarding the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) I outlined how the cultural changes overtaking the RBNZ were also overtaking its primary mission and probably did not, ironically, reflect a good return on investment (ROI). The recent release of commemorative coins by the RBNZ, coupled with a consumer complaint,
So far in this series we’ve debunked the following ‘pro-Palestinian’ propaganda: that the rapist butchers of Hamas are ‘resistance fighters’, the obvious stupidity of the Marxist claim that Jews are ‘settler colonialists’ in their own homeland, the obnoxiously false claims that Israel is an ‘apartheid state’ that is committing
When it comes to the weather, a change is as good as a holiday. One winter some years back, here in Tasmania, we had several months of continual rain, with only a handful of rain-free days. It was maddening. At the other end of the scale, friends who’ve lived
Michelle Aitken Michelle is interested in the relationships between science, culture, and policy. She has a background in performing arts and hospitality, and is a MEAA member. particle.scitech.org.au If you look around your bedroom, or in the door pocket of your car, you may have a cool
The 1960 US presidential race was interesting for various reasons. On the Democratic Party side the race to become its presidential candidate was characterised by a couple of hard-fought primary elections between John Kennedy and a man called Hubert Humphrey (basically forgotten by history these days) but the other main
Aditi Upmanyu, PhD candidate in English Literature University of Oxford The onset of the French Revolution, at the end of the 18th century, had a seismic impact on British thinking. Ideas of the nation were being hardened through xenophobia, an unquestioned reverence for institutional authority and a vocabulary of English
If you ask people who watch a lot of television who the smartest scientist in history was, they’ll almost certainly say either Stephen Hawking or, God help us, Neil deGrasse Tyson. If you’re lucky, they might recall Albert Einstein. But, while at least Hawking was undoubtedly very smart,
