The Colonel Pride Review

COLONIAL HISTORY MATTERS! No more Iran War right now! Join me instead for this epic colonial adventure. 1815, James Kelly embarked on his expedition to circumnavigate Tasmania in a five-man whaleboat, facing great dangers along the way. youtu.be/VCfBPlLvd3A?si…

@AUSNIAN Definitely looks unfinished. I like this style of building a lot but I think it could be a tad grander. Here's Leeds city hall for comparison. If one industrial Yorkshire city can manage a tower then surely the entirety of South Australia can scrape together the resources.

For reference, this is what it looks like today, mind the ridiculous trees in the way.

The original design for the South Australian Parliament by Edmund Wright 🇦🇺 It was revised due to a lack of funds, removing the towers, dome and pediment—gradually everything off the top—and left incomplete. Should they complete Parliament House according to original plans?

Battle of Trafalgar. Patriot.

Yes they were convicts, and they were awesome. Get yourself some epic Aus. convict history: youtu.be/IsrlSXqkBC8?si…

@Bigqadi In what version of reality is the convict origin of British Australia not the first thing anyone learns about its history?

They don't teach you in school that Australia's British and European settlers (1788–1868) arrived mostly as transported convicts, thieves, and criminals.. they carried out multiple genocides against the First Nations peoples.

What did they expect when they took away both their grog and their cigarettes?

@lowlandsapien Should have stuck with the daily grog supply

Ill put money down now that these are cooks and people who interact with cooks

@NicholasOShaug1 Limes and roast beef? Love 'em.

And then there is POM, rosbif etc; cheap ethnic slurs!

Today is the 33rd anniversary of the day the IRA bombed Warrington town centre and killed my son Tim and 3 yr old Johnathan Ball. Words can never describe how losing a child leaves a huge hole in your heart and your family. Eternal love Tim ❤️❤️

@SageDespatches Given your position on the nature of the outcome, what do you make of Peter Hitchens's argument that the GFA represented a defeat for Britain?

It might seem odd but as anyone who has read my blog will know, my analysis of the Troubles and PIRA's eventual defeat, is not all that different to the opinions stated by a number of former members of PIRA. Obviously we are looking at it from different perspectives. Their perspective is that the leadership shafted them. My perspective is that defeating PIRA meant it was inevitable their leadership would shaft them and it had to be done. The political trajectory the leadership took from the early 1980s, was actually an acceptance of failure but that couldn't be admitted in public. Anyone within PIRA who didn't see the writing on the wall, anyone who risked imprisonment or death by continuing with the "armed struggle", was going to be shafted because the peace process required that. The peace process was a face-saving controlled surrender for PIRA, so people had to either internalise a propaganda narrative or be left feeling bitter and disillusioned. When Gerry Adams claims the IRA were undefeated, he's saying what many Irish Republicans want to hear because accepting the truth means accepting decades of violence achieved nothing. There's a built-in incentive to accept a narrative that clearly isn't true but it's a narrative that many Irish Republicans want to be true. They were given a golden bridge to retreat across and they did so willingly, waving flags, cheering, following Gerry and Martin who told them this was "the next phase". And a quarter of a century later, Sinn Fein is helping to govern a part of the UK whilst promising a border poll, someday in the future, maybe, possibly, perhaps.

@__BreadMaker__ @RoadknightThe Top quality name.

@RoadknightThe We need a petition to return Lakemba to it's original name: P O T A T O H I L L

If you've never seen, and can't imagine ever seeing, this in a Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist et al church, then that's all you need to know about this religion.

There comes a moment when a man must reckon honestly with what he actually believes, as opposed to what he has inherited, repeated, and defended out of habit. That moment has arrived. The House of Commons, in its latest assault upon the hereditary peers, has committed an act of dispossession so brazen and so constitutionally illiterate that continued allegiance to the doctrine of Parliamentary supremacy is no longer possible for me. The doctrine is not merely flawed. It is finished, and it was finished, as all truly rotten things are, not by its enemies but by its most devoted sycophants. Parliamentary supremacy, in its Whig formulation, holds that the Commons represents the supreme authority in the realm, subject to no principle it has not itself chosen to recognise. It is sovereignty by committee, legitimised by procedure and sanctified by nothing except its own self-declared omnipotence. The ancient bonds between Crown and subject, the loyalty of blood and land and inherited obligation that once gave the constitutional order its living character, were quietly dissolved and replaced with the sterile arithmetic of electoral mandate. A chamber elected for a term, representing the manufactured preferences of an electorate ceaselessly managed by the administrative class that benefits from unchecked Commons power, has claimed the right to dissolve a branch of the legislature whose authority predates the Commons itself by centuries. The Cavalier knew, even as he lost, that what was being destroyed was not merely a king but a whole civilisation of loyalty, hierarchy, and sacred obligation. He was right. We are still living in the wreckage of his defeat. This is not reform. It is oligarchical usurpation dressed in proletarian clothing, and the Whig tradition has been running this particular scheme for more than three hundred years. It desecrated the altar, subverted the divine hierarchy, prostituted out the commons, and then had the audacity to call the ruins of western civilization "progress". It replaced the organically grown with the administratively managed, the inherited with the elected, the sacred with the procedural, and the rooted with the liquid. Every institution that carried memory, obligation, or loyalty beyond the present parliamentary session was a target. Most of them are now gone or hollowed beyond recognition. What is required is therefore not a constitutional adjustment but a civilisational restoration. The recovery of the Crown's reserve powers matters, and it matters urgently, but it is one instrument in a far larger project: the rebuilding of an entire order of life that the Whig centuries dismantled piece by piece. That means the rehabilitation of the Divine hierarchy as a natural and necessary feature of any healthy society. It means the recovery of inherited obligation as a political concept with genuine moral weight. It means the restoration of the sacred dimension of public authority, the understanding that power is not self-legitimising but answerable to something older and higher than the last election result. It means, in short, the recovery of everything we lost in 1649 and has been losing in instalments ever since. This is the beginning of what might be called, provisionally, Neocavalierism: a constitutional and civilisational faith that refuses the Whig monopoly on sovereignty, treats custom and inheritance as genuine sources of authority rather than embarrassments to be managed, and restores the Crown from tourist attraction to living symbol of a continuity that no parliamentary majority has the standing to dissolve. It is the politics of the permanent against the politics of the convenient. It is, in the oldest sense, the politics of loyalty. The case will be made at length over the upcoming months. The starting point is this: on the day the Commons moved against the hereditary peers, it moved against a principle far older and far deeper than itself, and it did so without shame, without mandate, and without any apparent awareness of what it was destroying. Parliamentary supremacy, having devoured the institutions it once claimed to protect, has forfeited its claim on any serious man's loyalty. What will rise in it's place will not be sentiment or nostalgia. It is a civilisational imagination adequate to what we have lost, and a flag worth planting in ground worth holding. Wyrd bið ful aræd

@_Australian_ 100% agree. And by the way, British pigs have ribs too and you can cook them however you like.

This is jestering for foreigners and these poms should be ashamed. What a joke. Act like a pioneer and colonizer for goodness sake. Act like you aren't a bloody maidservant.

@SeverusChud Here's a 17th century take on the problem

So explain to me how this is not sexual assault via deception?

@MetaBritain Over the last week I've realised that the Irish just say things.

They rattle this shit off like they're telling you their pronouns.

@NicholasOShaug1 I've never been to Yorktown but I have been to George Town, Malaysia, and the fort established by Cornwallis, the site of his most enduring positive contribution to the British Empire.

Sad reacts only. The sword surrendered by Major-General O'Hara that day (Cornwallis was scowling in his tent) is owned by Cazzie Derby, Cornwallis's descendant. My brother has knighted me with it.

@SeverusChud She's also just not an entertaining actress, always pulling the same horrible expression. If they wanted a brown Chani then fine, find a beautiful, athletic actress who can do the job.

The problem is she's not Chani. In the books she’s described as skinny, pale, elfin-faced, with whiteless blue eyes and long tawny red hair. Watching this painful performance and total uncharacterization of Chani is pure agony. The movie butchered her.

Oh look! It's that "special relationship" again!

@William83009895 @BeschlossDC Now there is a quote I believe, thanks.

@ColonelPrideRev @BeschlossDC mountvernon.org/george-washing…

For St. Patrick's Day 1780, General George Washington ordered a holiday for his troops in "solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence”: