Category: Politics

• P. Political Scraps (intro.)

  The news of the death of Ian Smith struck me with an unexpected ambivalence. The obit in the online Guardian (no doubt prepared years in advance) stated what was well known: that Smith had been a WWII fighter pilot and a farmer before becoming leader of the ultra-conservative Rhodesian Front. Then as Prime Minister of…

  lefthook51

  October 15, 2021

  History, Politics