It seems that the country of Nelson and Drake is busy doing what it does best – forgetting our history. From the Coventry Telegraph, and probably elsewhere: A QUARTER of children say Captain Jack Sparrow is Britain’s most famous seaman. That’s according to a new survey which puts our knowledge of […]

Via Fraser Nelson, this is “Christmas Under Fire”, a Ministry of Information film made by an American about life in 1940. Happy Boxing Day, one and all.

Scott Brown’s new Senate seat in Massachusetts has an interesting history, and no, it’s not related to the Murdering Motorist but instead it reminds us of the proud heritage of the GOP: As the new senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, said: “It’s not the Ted Kennedy seat. It’s not the […]

On the History Channel tonight is a programme called Soldiers’ Stories. From the website: Soldiers’ Stories tells of the troubles in Northern Ireland from the perspective of the British soldiers who served there between 1969 and 2007, the longest continuous deployment in the history of the British Army.This was a […]

The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of assisting in the murder of 27,900 Jews in a Nazi concentration camp, will begin on November 30 in Munich, the court announced today (Thursday). This was despite hundreds of film directors and art critics saying that it should all be forgotten about because it happened […]

TheEye recalls reading a work of fiction many moons ago in which Hitler had a son. In time this US citizen, as he had become, stood for Mayor of New York. Predictable hand-wringing ensued, with the book switching between the merits (and otherwise) of the individual for office and the […]