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Pulling it all together
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 21/07/2017
» What I learned from years of backpacking is that there's no single pattern of development. Every country I've been to has had its unique history, which is why the prospect of globalisation is incongruous and why mother countries couldn't hold on to their colonies.
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The actual arch-enemy
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 03/02/2017
» For several years after the start of the Counter Crusades -- the Middle East's invasion of Europe -- it was unhealthy for the European media to say or write anything that was negative to the Holy Book. Its extremist adherents attacked the source and blood flowed. Fleeing the scene, no suicide bombers they, so-called Islamic State proudly boasted of the murders.
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Last of a trilogy
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/08/2016
» First a kingdom ruled by kings, then a republic ruled by senators, there was a growing feeling that Rome should be a kingdom again -- well, not exactly a kingdom, but an empire as befits an expanding state.
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Court martial case
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/03/2015
» Military court martials tend to be short, their verdicts swiftly carried out. Unlike civilian courts, lawyers don't come up with reasons to delay or overturn sentences. The Code of Military Justice is more clear-cut, less filled with loopholes.
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Clancy’s swan song
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/05/2014
» While death and taxes remain the same, all else changes. People are fickle. Fashion lasts for, at the most, long as opposed to short periods of time. Men wore beards and powdered wigs. Women’s hair was 30cm high and fitted into bustles. Court dancing became ragtime. Film studios used to turn out Westerns and musicals by the hundreds. Today, neither are popular.
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Fateful decisions
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 14/10/2013
» Whether history shapes men or men shape history is a tricky question, as both are true at different times _ often at the same time. Be that as it may, beyond doubt two men shaped the 20th century. Both were tyrants (who was "worse" is still being argued).
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Europe in chaos
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 29/07/2013
» Born and bred in the Big Apple, my first memory of war was of a photo of a near naked native standing with a spear on the front page of a newspaper. Upon enquiry I was told that he was a soldier of Ethiopia, of which I had never heard. It was at war with Italy, of which I had.
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