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It was a definitely low point for the Navy, accompanied by an even more shameful coverup.  Here's What You Need to Remember: Unwilling to admit that an accident may have taken place, especially when rulebreaking may have contributed, navy investigators and senior officers circled the wagons and scapegoated the dead. The U.S. Navy covered itself with shame thirty plus years ago while investigating a fatal explosion on board the battleship USS Iowa. The World War II veteran Iowa and her sister dreadnoughts sported three 16-inch, 50-caliber three-gun turrets. Each 67-foot-long naval rifle w...

THE DRAGONS OF EXPECTATION is an urgent call for society to examine the 'brain-blindfolds' that have consistently stifled debate and prevented painful self-examination. It is a landmark defence of civilisation that illuminates the political degradations and intellectual fetishisms of our current world. From the author of The Great Terror and The Harvest of Sorrow comes this long-awaited work of history and philosophy. Aware of the 'primitive delusions' that have attracted people to rogue ideologies over the past century, Robert Conquest, with a deep and consistently compassionate gaze, has de...

Harry and Meghan’s ‘sound and fury’ shows the magic of a good quotation The best lines pass immutable wit and wisdom down the generations – which means more than ‘speaking your truth’ 11 March 2021 • 5:00am Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's interview was so much 'sound and fury', according to Wendell Pierce Credit: Pixel8000 Earlier this week, the American actor Wendell Pierce was interviewed on LBC radio. What made me sit up and listen was not his opinion on the Meghan and Harry interview, but the phrase he used to summarise the circus around it. Pierce said that the interview...

The cancel mob can attack Larkin the man, but they should leave his poetry alone Hull City Council think the poet’s statue is of ‘concern’ because of racism in his letters. But those remarks don’t represent his work 9 March 2021 • 2:17pm Poet Philip Larkin, who died in 1985, was honoured with a statue in Hull in 2010  Credit: PA All that is surprising about the Left coming for Philip Larkin is that it took them so long. His statue in Hull, at whose university Larkin was librarian for 30 years, is on a list of monuments under consideration for removal in order to appease the Black L...

The leaked messages, seen by Daily Telegraph, also suggest officials were worried the racism review could cause a backlash. “All this needs to be done sensitively. It is important we are reviewing things behind the scenes," the emails allegedly read. “We are not publicising any of this unless directly approached as [I] agree sometimes raising an issue creates the problem. “But if asked, and we said we had done nothing, I think [it] would raise concerns in the current climate.” Statues of poet Larkin, Gandhi and metaphysical poet Marvell, all in the city centre, are also under review. ...