The UK Response Group

What is the #UKResponseGroup?

Here's the Commanding Officer of @45CdoGp to explain a bit more...https://t.co/fWJA7rm6Vp pic.twitter.com/TTF4dWJ6Ck

— Royal Marines (@RoyalMarines) May 25, 2021

Is Desire for Political Liberty So Bad?

The Man Who Would Be King

Just saw this movie again a couple of weeks ago...

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, is one of Rudyard Kiplings greatest stories and in this thread I will examine the historical characters and places that inspired this swashbuckling adventure set far beyond the frontiers of Christian civilisation. https://t.co/keqQQaLBtN pic.twitter.com/pXqULsVrUz

— Peter_hopkirk_respecter (@HopkirkPeter) November 25, 2020

Exchange between the British and Ottoman Empires

“Without learning from the Ottomans, the history of the British Empire would be a much smaller chapter in the book of world history.” 🔥 by Sascha Clement in our brilliant new blog entry: https://t.co/NSfVbpgFpI

— Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) (@MEMOrients) November 23, 2020

Reminds Me of the Movie Black '47

Trailer for that movie here.

#Museum30 our #Famine pot needed #restoration before it was put on display. The Great Famine #Ireland began in 1845-population of #Ireland decreased by c.25% due to starvation, disease &emigration #Workhouse #3DModel #Donegal @DonegalCoArchiv @magnifyzoology @IrishWorkhouseC pic.twitter.com/iOFZaK3t2i

— Donegal County Museum (@Donegalcomuseum) November 21, 2020

A Special Remembrance Day Concert

Remnants of a Dead Empire

Fun Diplomatic Fact:

In Rome last week I learned from our brilliant woman at the Vatican @SallyAxworthy that only three British diplomatic postings currently use diplomatic uniform — Spain, Thailand, and the Holy See.#diplomatichistory #foreignoffice #vatican #diplomacy pic.twitter.com/3t1TBK270C

— Andrew Cusack (@cusackandrew) October 16, 2020

Horce Racing in the UK and China

Although horse racing was a symbol of British colonialism, it became a surprisingly inclusive pastime in China’s major International Settlement.

From the October issue:https://t.co/hPqeDvXF50

— History Today (@HistoryToday) October 3, 2020

Is Burke Worth Keeping?

Many thanks to ⁦@LawLiberty⁩ for publishing my review of ⁦@GregCollins111⁩ new and, I think, definitive book on the economic thought of Edmund Burke. https://t.co/sXIEb8V4mZ

— Samuel Gregg (@DrSamuelGregg) July 28, 2020

If you are the type of conservative who is suspicious of markets and economic liberty more generally, holds business in low regard, prefers protectionist, guild, or corporatist economic arrangements, and nurse a hostility to modernity, Burke is not your man. Advocacy of the expansion of commercial liberty is a consistent thread of Burke’s thought. He believed that commercial society conferred great material, political, and moral advantages upon nations which embraced these freedoms and the limits to state power which they implied.

By the same token, if you are the type of classical liberal who cannot see beyond the lens of economic categories, is nervous about associating freedom with any conception of truth beyond the empirical, embraces hedonist ethics, or despises orthodox religion, then Burke is really not your man either. For to be an “oeconomist,” in the way that Burke’s Reflections used this word, is to detach yourself from these important realities. From Burke’s standpoint, this was to make the same mistake as the men in Paris busy pursuing dreams that would end in the guillotine and war.

Burke reacted against mercantilism but took some sort of free trade as a given, along with the British Empire and the "modern state." Does he resolve politike to first principles? I don't think so. MacIntyre's assessment of Burke in After Virtue is more correct than not.

Cambridge University Press: Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy by Gregory M. Collins

Milbank Said Something Recently Too

America is a mixture between a third world and a first world entity - it’s a hybrid of the most advanced and the most primitive behaviour - it’s elite live like nobody else in the modern world and it’s poor are treated worse than almost any other nation https://t.co/YSiORacqQb

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) May 31, 2020

Beneficiaries of a long-lived empire and its wealth really shouldn't be making judgments about other empires that haven't done as well, especially when that empire has a larger population that is also more ethnically diverse.

Varieties of the British Right

Kirk Center review by James Baresel.

James Baresel reviews a new book exploring the varieties of the English right during the interwar years from Bernhard Dietz: https://t.co/pyvNqbmh6U

— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) May 19, 2020

Bloomsbury: Neo-Tories: The Revolt of British Conservatives against Democracy and Political Modernity (1929–1939) by Bernhard Dietz.

They Defended Their Country

It’s incredible to think there is just one Battle of Britain pilot left - John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway. I can’t help think of all those I was lucky enough to have known best: Geoff Wellum, Tom Neil, Bob Doe, Pete Brothers, Bee Beamont, Jimmy Corbin, Bam Bamberger. All gone. It’s sad. pic.twitter.com/BjJwqBzPkX

— James Holland (@James1940) May 9, 2020

but did Churchill escalate the air war?

The real British myth of the Second World War: after managing to survive 1940, Britain, exhausted and perhaps disheartened, stepped back and left the real effort to Russia and America | Robert Tombs #VEDay75 https://t.co/sV6BQ8iO0q

— UnHerd (@unherd) May 8, 2020

What else would the Queen say? That the UK has been taken over by foreigners and cultural Marxists?

"Our streets are not empty. They are filled with the love and care that we have for each other. And when I look at our country & see what we are willing to do we are still a nation that those brave soldiers, sailors & airmen would recognise & admire"

Her Majesty The Queen#VE75

— Matthew Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) May 8, 2020

The English Game

There are similar problems for the US military

Empires in decline.

British Army Opens Recruitment to Foreigners from 53 Commonwealth Nations Amidst Personnel Shortage https://t.co/SZkxMUAmXh

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 5, 2018

Guarding the Queen

Episode 2

Episode 3

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Journey's End

*spoiler warning*

A Testimony to the Strength of the British Empire

Exclusive Clip: LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD Testifies to the Strength of Gertrude Bell

Could a woman wander around unmolested in that part of the world today?



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Something Good from Netflix?

The Siege of Jadotville


The story seems to be politically incorrect; what am I missing?

The Dumbing Down of the British Empire's Legacy

The Kingsman - so it is an "internional" intelligence agency rather than a British one but we know what inspired the look of the older spies... as if the modern Daniel Craig Bond wasn't enough to remind us that the glory of Great Britain has passed.

Post by Empire Magazine.

Beyond the Trailer
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Showing on PBS: Secrets of the Tower of London. The Beefeaters, the Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London admits women into its ranks now. Did I see one the last time I was there? Maybe I did, and that was in the 90s. iirc from the program, those who have served in the British military for 22 years can apply to be a Yeoman Warder. Does such a program, along with the historical site which it features, appeal not only to Briton's love of the monarchy, and their attachment to the institution, but also to a nostalgia for the British national and imperial past and what remains of it?

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