In Part 1, I briefly mentioned the 12 Days of Christmas without expanding on what these 12 days are and what they represent. Depending on where you look and what you read, this period can [more…]
It seems impossible for England to keep its nose out of continental affairs. The historical track record beggars belief, the Black Prince, Henry V, Henry VIII, The War of Spanish Succession, Napoleonic Wars, The Great [more…]
What is Christmas? When can we put the Christmas decorations up? When can we start talking about Christmas? Should we start Christmas shopping now? All of these examples of questions have become all too familiar [more…]
If I wanted Britain to fail ….to follow, not lead; to decline, not prosper; to despair, not dream – I would start with sovereignty. I’d implement a Brexit which is Brexit in name only. I’d [more…]
There are today about 100,000 people living in Argentina claiming English ancestry. In a nation of 42 million, their figure pales to insignificance. Even if one – wrongly – assumed all Anglo-Argentines were concentrated in [more…]
By the late 1920s, and after six decades of almost uninterrupted economic growth at around seven to eight per cent per year, Argentine per-capita GDP had reached 80% of US levels. It had surpassed per-capita [more…]
Rule Britannia I had an urge to write something about “racism” and I want to reframe it to what it really is, “push-back”. “Push-back”, in my context, is where you’ve had enough of a behaviour [more…]
Is there, or has there ever been a special relationship between America and Great Britain? Certainly it was something President Obama sneered at, but I suspect this is perhaps his lack of a traditional education [more…]
Argentina, that vast expanse of lost opportunities, is not what commonly springs to mind as a very anglophile country. Luckily, the dislike is mutual, since that botched attempt of La Reconquista de las Malvinas (or [more…]
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