As China and India lurch towards a potential war, British minds are focused on more pressing issues such as banning rugby fans from singing ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’. Though this has been the unofficial England rugby anthem for more...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
A friend recently sent me a link to this article: https://rar.rutgers.edu/whatever-happens-we-have-got-the-maxim-and-they-have-not-the-conspicuous-absence-of-machine-guns-in-british-imperialist-imagery-by-ramey-mize/ It has the potential to be an...
I avoid Facebook like the plague, but a friend drew my attention to this recent article which was apparently posted on a Boer War FB group: BLOEMFONTEIN CONFERENCE: A DETERMINED PATH TO WAR The ZAR franchise...
Godwin’s law (or Godwin’s rule of Hitler analogies) is an Internet adage asserting that: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches” So basically, if an...
Day 1 of this pointless and Draconian lockdown, but at least the tedium is broken a little by my entertaining gaggle of stalkers on Quora. These bizarre characters fill their lives by pouncing on any comment I make, puffing up their feathers and...
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