Pat Murphy - Calgary's Business

The rise and fall of the Romanovs

Posted by Pat Murphy | Mar 2, 2017

100 years ago this month, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated. In July of the following year, he and his immediate family were bayoneted, shot and mutilated

Posted by Pat Murphy | Nov 30, 2016

The best assessment of Castro came from his daughter Alina who, when told he was a dictator, replied: “Strictly speaking, Fidel is a tyrant”

Posted by Pat Murphy | Oct 23, 2016

The Norman Conquest annihilated England’s ruling class, physically and genetically

Posted by Pat Murphy | Aug 14, 2016

The new British prime minister is apparently an admirer of the Victorian-era urban reforming Radical Joe

Posted by Pat Murphy | May 6, 2016

Beating-up on Britain’s Sir Mark Sykes and France’s Francois Georges-Picot for today’s mess in the Middle East is just plain silly