Announcing exterminatingpoverty.com
I set up a website for the book Exterminating Poverty. Why did you set up exterminatingpovertybook.com? The site you are now reading was set up in 2014 to celebrate the … Continue reading
Happy Christmas!
In 2020 this website and blog entered its seventh year. To be honest, when I began the project in early 2014, I didn’t have a clear plan as to how … Continue reading
“Yes” to consistency (3/3)
“China is forcing women to be sterilised or fitted with contraceptive devices in Xinjiang in an apparent attempt to limit the population of Muslim Uighurs, according to new research.” China … Continue reading
“Yes” to accurate history (2/3)
Essays and articles about British eugenicists are often based on the assumption that eugenic principles were not put into practice in Britain.[1] As a result, the degree to which British … Continue reading
Burying Eugenics to Save Marie Stopes
Dr Marie Stopes is a key figure in the foundation myth of the British birth-control movement. The established narrative of a woman acting selflessly to give her poorer sisters reproductive … Continue reading
A New Book
In my most recent post, I said that I had completed a big project. It is completing the writing of Exterminating Poverty: The incredible true story of the eugenic plan … Continue reading
Happy Christmas 2019
Wishing you (and your loved ones) a happy and safe Christmas! Thank you for your attention and support during 2019. I am delighted to say that, in the next few … Continue reading
A doodle
This drawing appeared in the Evening Standard on Tuesday 5th October 1937 on the page headed “Doodles”. “They are still doodling, Doctors and clergymen, clerks and bus-drivers, novelists and housewives — … Continue reading
Elevator pitch
The idea of an “elevator pitch” is to briefly encapsulate a story into the bare essentials. Here’s a summary of the trial of Dr Halliday Sutherland in the High Court … Continue reading
On miracles
On miracles, Dr Sutherland wrote: Mental attitudes towards miracles are often curious. Thus a person may blindly believe that the astral body of a fakir has been seen walking about … Continue reading
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