Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Clive Ponting

Born: April 13, 1946
Died: July 28, 2020 (aged 74)
Bio: Clive Sheridan Ponting was a senior civil servant, best known for leaking documents about the sinking of the Belgrano in the Falklands War. He was the author of a number of revisionist books on British and world history.
Known for:
- A New Green History of the World (1991)
- World History - A New Perspective (2000)
- 1940: Myth and Reality (1990)
- The Crimean War (2004)
- The twentieth century (1998)