Baden-Powell and Basil Fawlty

I have been watching with a mixture of disgust and anger as mobs of anarchist scum rampage through Britain’s cities, indulging in a looting and rioting binge ostensibly to ‘protest’ against the death of someone thousands of miles away (and who’s...

On this day in 1940…

11 June 1940 marked the start of the Siege of Malta, the longest siege in British military history. For the next two-and-a-half years, the tiny island would be hammered by more than 3,000 raids by Italian and German aircraft, but the Maltese...

The latest myth doing the rounds

The myths which are made-up to maintain the fiction that the Boers were in the innocent victims in the Boer War never cease to amuse me. I was recently told by someone on Quora that Kruger’s decision to pick a fight with the British Empire wasn’t...

On this day in 1900…

One of the most popular myths of the Boer War is that the clever old Boers didn’t waste their time defending their towns and cities, as they didn’t place any value on them. Like so many things which most people ‘know’ about the Boer War, this is...

On this day in 1879…

The Prince Imperial Napoleon Eugene Bonaparte, the great-grandson of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and the only son of Napoleon III, was killed on 1 June 1879 while serving with the British Army in the Zulu War. He had been part of a...