Franklin D Roosevelt: a political life, by Robert Dallek, (Penguin, UK, 2017) In April 1945, when FDR’s body was conveyed by train from Warm Springs, Georgia, to the White House where it lay in state, thousands of people stood along the railway...
Much was made by the likes of Mandela after 1994 that non-racialism would characterise South Africa’s future and erase the cancer of race-based laws. But 26 years on, race-based laws are actually more prolific than ever before. Let’s do the sums...
History has an unerring way of repeating itself. In parts of the US between the 1830s and 1850s, anti-slave and abolition movements were subjected to violence, discord and the perversion of civil liberties by those who opposed emancipation and...
Despite the media admission by its founders that BLM is Marxist in ideology and is intent on weaponising race so as to foment social discord and division, it is a disgrace that by its editorials of July 17 and 22, The Mercury sees fit to play...
Amid the many indications of the radical changes rocking the US political system, none is more significant than the announcement by 43 former George Bush Republican officials that they will be voting for Democrat Joe Biden in the November...
Marxists have always excelled in forming front organisations through which they promote their agenda. In many cases, such organisations appear innocuous and well-meaning and consequently attract widespread support. In considering the controversy...
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