Brave New World – dystopia in literature
Brave New World is being broadcast by Netflix adapting the 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley. It’s not surprising that in uncertain times, a novel like Brave New World is revived for TV.
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Top Roman movies of all time!
The top Roman movies of all time! Hollywood doing sword and sandals.
Roman slavery and American slavery – how were they different?
What was the difference between Roman and American slavery in practice?
Inside the Stasi – the East German secret police!
An explanation of the East Germany secret police – the Stasi – and the torture techniques they used.
Lizard people – our reptilian overlords
David Icke has popularised the lizard people conspiracy theory but it actually has a much older pedigree as Tony McMahon discovers
Why the Soviet Union lied about AIDS
Russia has been allegedly pumping out fake news to undermine western value but this is nothing new as Tony McMahon discovers
Were the lunar landings really faked?
The theory that the lunar landings of the 1960 and 1970s were faked has been a persistent claim as Tony McMahon discovers
Flat Earthers have no support in Ancient history!
Flat Earthers have enjoyed a growth in support for their view that the planet isn’t a globe despite even the Ancients believing that it was
How Anne of Cleves kept her head!
Anne of Cleves was the fourth wife of Henry VIII often overlooked because she wasn’t beheaded but how did this resourceful and clever woman survive?
Why Henry VIII had no friends
King Henry VIII had not friends at the end of his life having executed Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell and lost a few wives as well