Showing posts with label Prussia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prussia. Show all posts
Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Jews: what goes around comes around.

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Do you remember the jingle ‘In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue’? I learned that at school. It was much later that I realised that 149...
Thursday, 13 September 2018

Uneasy but necessary bedfellows: history and politics

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A book I read in the old East Germany, by a dissident called Heinz Knobloch, had a catch phrase running through it, ‘mistrust the green spac...
Saturday, 1 August 2015

A fairy tale with a touch of reality: not sparing the rod, to make the Prince

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Remember all those fairy tales we’d hear as children, with their courageous, handsome princes, who’d suffer a bit (perhaps living as a frog ...
Thursday, 18 June 2015

Curious bicentenary

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Two hundred years ago on Monday of this week, 15 June 1815, which back then happened to be a Thursday, the Duchess of Richmond held a ball i...
Monday, 8 December 2014

We don't have to let the elite roll back our achievements, but if we don't stop them, they will

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“Very well, alone!” exclaims the lone Tommy, standing on a rock amid raging seas and shaking his fist at a stormy sky with warplanes headi...
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Quinquiremes and Coasters, Accountants and Officials, Riches and Horrors

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There’s something haunting about John Masefield’s poem Cargoes . Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunn...
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