Monthly Archives: August 2014
The Jijadist & The Player
I share in the widespread sense of horror at the summarily execution-murder- of James Foley, a fellow journalist whose only alleged crime was that he was a US citizen reporting on the brutal reality of the Middle East. We are told that his Jihadist murderer spoke with an English accent, suggesting he might have been educated and brought up in London’s multicultural East End. If and when he is killed or captured by his enemy, or some relative or friend spills the beans, further details of the personal history of …
A family war remembrance
This evening at ten o’clock local time , on this day marking the centenary of the beginning of the First World War, lights will dim in the city where I am now London , in streets and homes, and candles will burn in remembrance… of those who died. I share with you the remembrance of my uncle who was killed long before any of us were born- 2Lt David Chambers Burns, Black Watch Regiment- educated at the Jesuit Stonyhurst College. “He was killed in Flanders during the Third battle of …
