Dan Snow
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(Also- Im not a fan of actually going to war against Greece because someone gets roughed up....)
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
(Also- Im not a fan of actually going to war against Greece because someone gets roughed up....)
'A British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him from injustice and wrong.'
Palmerston, 1850
Palmerston, 1850
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
'A British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him from injustice and wrong.'
Palmerston, 1850
Palmerston, 1850
Or that time in the 470s when the staggering remnant of the Roman Empire in the west decided to entrust its defence to a barbarian warlord.
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Or that time in the 470s when the staggering remnant of the Roman Empire in the west decided to entrust its defence to a barbarian warlord.
Or in 2025 when that person who didn’t believe in the US Department of Education was put in charge of the US Department of Education.
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Or in 2025 when that person who didn’t believe in the US Department of Education was put in charge of the US Department of Education.
It’s like when that huge Prussia fanboy became tsar of Russia…. during a war with Prussia.
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
It’s like when that huge Prussia fanboy became tsar of Russia…. during a war with Prussia.
They knew full well that slave owning was an abomination.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
They knew full well that slave owning was an abomination.
“I will go to my grave loading my own dishwasher.”
[Soaring Churchillian rhetoric for the 21st Century]
[Soaring Churchillian rhetoric for the 21st Century]
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“I will go to my grave loading my own dishwasher.”
[Soaring Churchillian rhetoric for the 21st Century]
[Soaring Churchillian rhetoric for the 21st Century]
If they’re alive, living in complex societies, capable of historical analysis, and regard the first third of the 21st Century as something to snigger at then I’m very happy indeed to be the butt of their jokes.
November 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
If they’re alive, living in complex societies, capable of historical analysis, and regard the first third of the 21st Century as something to snigger at then I’m very happy indeed to be the butt of their jokes.