We Live in troubled times but for the Historian....

..it is a remakrable period in world history.

My work is non-political but it is impossible for any historian to be completely neutral as unconscious bias always shapes the way someone writes. The mission of the historian however is to say nothing unless it is based on evidence - this is why good historians or people with a history degree are more likely to make good judges of the truth in whatever job they may hold.

G.R. Elton was the uncle of writer and comedian Ben Elton and also one of the first 'professional' historians and, as this qoutation illustrates, tells us how historians can tear part the dictatrors who lie and exploit prejudice with every breath. A sad but true piece of evidence today is the contrast between these two peices of evidence.

This statement from the President of the United States on 23rd October 2026 is completely at odds with the evidence of this screenshot of the number of drone and missile alerts in Kyiv taken yesterday on 25th October 2026.

The time begins at the bottom of the page and heads upwards showing the frequency of attacks on the city by drones and missiles - these are alerts sent to the mobile phone of Kyiv residents.

This total corruption of the truth is like a virus in the body of society. Sadly it is far from new as a political tactic by the unscrupulous politician or businesman as they lie to a media unable to answer back:

Poisoning the Media.....

Sadly such tactcis are nothing new as the Roman historian Livy said two thousand years ago:

The advice of Livy to other countries is to see the evidence of this behaviour and from that know what to avoid becoming yourself.

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