Rostra Consulting

09/08/2023

I'm looking forward to the Napoleon movie from Ridley Scott - except for the fact it's going to revive an old myth that the French shot the nose off the Sphinx in Egypt. It's just not true. Let me explain...

The new Ridley Scott movie on Napoleon will revive the idea that his troops shot the nose off the Sphinx as Tony McMahon investigates

09/08/2023

The extreme-Right poses a growing threat in the United States and Europe. Let's look back and try to understand - in order to defeat - the first American white supremacist organisation: the K*K.
https://beardyhistory.com/2023/07/31/ku-klux-klan-a-history-of-brutal-murder/

The brutal history of the Ku Klux Klan from its founding in 1865 and its record of murder exposed by TV historian Tony McMahon

09/08/2023

What was life like before digital? Let a Boomer take you in his time machine to a scary place!
https://the70s80s90s.com/2023/01/03/what-was-life-like-before-digital/

The world before digital was very different for young people in terms of how they communicated and socialised as Tony McMahon reports

09/08/2023

Errol Christie, Neville Staple, Pauline Black, and others were trailblazers who fought back against racism and bigotry in Coventry - let's remember their achievements in the 1980s!
https://the70s80s90s.com/2023/08/09/coventry-heroes-escaping-the-ghost-town/

In 1981 - Coventry really was the Ghost Town but local heroes like Neville Staple and Errol Christie were trying to make a difference

27/07/2023

LGBT rights under attack across Africa - what are the real reasons for this?
https://youtu.be/toYaZl8Y2Sc

In this edition of Unreported News, TV historian and journalist Tony McMahon reports on a wave of anti-LGBT legislation being enacted by a growing number of ...

27/06/2023

Wagner Group, Belarus, and Putin - what is going on now?
https://rostraconsulting.org/2020/10/06/wagner-group-and-yevgeny-prigozhin/

Russian leader Vladimir Putin came very close to being overthrown by his own mercenaries in the Wagner Group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin

27/06/2023

Some believe the great Brexit divide in Britain between Leavers and Remainers may be narrowing.
https://rostraconsulting.org/2023/06/26/brexit-chasm-between-leavers-and-remainers/

The Brexit chasm between Leavers and Remainers is closing by degrees as Leavers regret their Brexit 2016 referendum vote

27/06/2023

The most unlikely coalitions are forming to undermine LGBT rights - how can diversity and equality be defended?
https://rostraconsulting.org/2023/06/25/lgbt-rights-under-attack/

LGBT rights are under attack from an unusual coalition of the Extreme Right and Islamists who have found common cause as Tony McMahon reports

27/06/2023

West Africa has a terrorist problem - so what can be done to build community resilience?
https://rostraconsulting.org/2023/06/26/west-africa-worsening-terrorist-situation/

West Africa is witnessing a worsening terrorist situation with Al Qaeda and ISIS targeting both military and civilian targets

02/07/2021

With Football for Peace founder Kash Siddiqi in Saint Denis, Paris launching a youth program funded by the UK and French governments

02/07/2021

Rostra's Tony McMahon co-authored the life story of Neville Staple - vocalist in The Specials and Fun Boy Three - and at the forefront of the 2Tone/Ska response to racism in the 70s and 80s

02/07/2021

Ten years ago - Rostra director Tony McMahon co-authored the biography of black British boxer Errol Christie - a no holds barred look at racism in the 1980s - and so relevant today!
Shortlisted for best sports biography 2011 and longlisted for the William Hill sports book prize.

No Place to Hide: How I Put The Black In The Union Jack