I remember crusty old Anglo-Catholics whingeing on about the History NC/specs spending more time on 11 years of Nazism than they did on 11 centuries of Christendom.
I’m 47. And I still need to grow up
Why?
Some people are just quick learners, I guess...26 posts into forum membership
on your map i think that's south georgia east-south-east of the falklands. but apparently not red...Hasnt the monarchy done enough to the world to warrant being disliked?
I mean....face it...the British Empire fucked over a quarter of the world...485,000,000 people.View attachment 257081
Have a good look. And tell me how personal they were to the people living in those countries?
Then have a read..
The five worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire will make you wonder why we're apparently proud of it
A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of Britain's history of colonialismwww.independent.co.uk
5 of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire
Boer Concentration Camps.
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Amritsar massacre
Amritsar massacre: 'open rebellion' in Punjab - archive, 17 April 1919
17 April 1919: Causes of the unrest said to be opposition to acts allowing political cases to be tried without juries, as well as hardships entailed after the first world warwww.google.com
Partitioning of India
The Mutual Genocide of Indian Partition
It displaced fifteen million people and killed more than a million. How did it happen?www.newyorker.com
Mau Mau Uprising
Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire | Marc Parry
The Long Read: The Harvard historian Caroline Elkins stirred controversy with her work on the crushing of the Mau Mau uprising. But it laid the ground for a legal case that has transformed our view of Britain’s past
Famines in India
The Bengal Famine: How the British engineered the worst genocide in human history for profit
It was worse than the Jews Hitler decimated during WW2. And it went on for centuries. This Independence Day a look back on the Bengal Famine, the worst crime committed by the British during their stint as our rulers.yourstory.com
And that's without including what happened in Ireland during the famine and the entirety of British rule there.
yes, send Spanner a pm
Monarchists always love to tell us that Brenda would walk any election for a head of state. I'd be happy to take the chance.
at her age i would have thought she wouldn't run
I'd really like her to be given the opportunity, though; I'm not unreasonable.
he's come a long way since the monkees
Nonsense i'm on a winning streak! I'm hoping for 5 out of 5Well, there's the kiss of non-death!
He's in my 5, the man is 99, I know he seems a tough old bird but unless he really is a lizard his days must be numbered.Well, there's the kiss of non-death!
yeh hopefully now in single digits
Mind the Queen Mother? They even tried choking her with fish bones. Would she die? Would she fuck.Just crossed my mind that the old fucker is going to make it to one hundred so we'll get a dose of fawning for that THEN die so we get double
It felt like a recurring theme of my childhood -- the Queen Mother and her bloody fish bone hospital trips.
