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David Horsley
IN THE BEGINING: Carnival band photo taken by Dr Ted Hill, in Port of Spain in the early 1950s and made available in public domain by his son John Hill
Features / 23 August 2025
23 August 2025

DAVID HORSLEY reminds us of the roots and staying power of one of the most iconic festivals around

TENDENTIOUS: Illustration of the Cardiff riots from the Illustrated Police News, June 19 1919 - note the depiction of the black man as a knife-wielding assailant / Pic: Public domain
Racism / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY

The SS Bremen
History / 28 July 2025
28 July 2025

DAVID HORSLEY remembers communist seaman Bill Bailey, the ‘Kid from Hoboken,’ whose heroics in tearing down a swastika flag from a ship’s mast inspired early anti-fascist resistance

LEST WE FORGET: Memorial plaque to Werner Seelenbinder in Be
BOOKS / 15 May 2020
15 May 2020
Revelatory accounts of courageous Germans who resisted the nazis during WWII