The untold story of Edith Tudor-Hart: ‘grandmother’ of the Cambridge spies by Charlotte Philby in The Telegraph, 3 October 2020. Wersja polska: Ocieplanie wizerunku agentów totalitaryzmu. When thinking about woman’s bravery, I prefer my mother, who was imprisoned by the Communist henchmen in eastern Poland occupied by the Soviet Russia after WWII. She was ‘tried’ … Read more
My two comments following James Marriott’s essay Are we vicious or virtuous when civilisation is stripped away? in The Times, 23 May 2020, devoted to Humankind, a new book by the Dutch writer Rutger Bregman. The second one is a response to another reader’s comment. Note the absence of Communism from the article. It was … Read more
My second comment on the article This virus is a shot in the arm for science by David Aaronovitch in The Times, April 1 2020, which I posted today, April 5 2020. The selection of characters and other elements of the story presented in this article, shows that the article is used as an opportunity … Read more
On February 23, 2020, The Sunday Times published an article by Andrew Holgate Holocaust novelists blur Nazi fact and fiction in bestsellers. Here is my comment. Quote from the article: In one of the novel’s most important scenes, the number he tattoos on the arm of his future wife is seen by several critics as … Read more