My Country: Always Wrong

Well, surprise, surprise: pro-IRA, pro-Hezbollah, Marxist imbecile, Jeremy Corbyn, has announced that if (God forbid) Labour win the up-coming General Election, he will seek to indoctrinate British children that the Empire was evil...

Transvaal Diamonds?

When it comes to the Boer War, the lengths that some people will go to so as to blame everything on the wicked, scheming British is always amusing. I recently read the following (completely unreferenced) passage in an otherwise authoritative and...

On this day in 1899…

Though obviously much more associated with the Second World War, the young Winston Churchill also played an active and adventurous role in the early phases of the Boer War. After active service on the Frontier and in the Sudan, and having proven...