Thursday, 15 October 2009



Silvio Berlusconi Backs Tony Blair to be President of Europe


'See you at the ritual tonight, Antonio.'

'Yes, Silvi, looking forward to it.'

'Tony Blair can count on the support of at least one old ally as he manoeuvres himself to become the first president of Europe. Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, found time out from his political battles to write a front-page letter in a right-wing newspaper, declaring his former holiday companion to be the best man for the job.'

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The Real Story of Nazi Egyptology

'As Wolf attempted to twist Ancient Egypt into something the Nazis could agree with, a prominent Egyptologist stood up against this. Alexander Scharff held an Egyptology chair at the University of Munich. He was strongly anti-Nazi and in 1938 authored a piece that dismissed Wolf’s attempt to see Egyptology through the lens of Nazism.'

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