David Corbett retweeted
As a country, we must find the courage to finally speak the raw truth on what immigration has done to Britain.
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With the Irish Guards in the news …
The @irish_guards have two of the finest quick marches in the British Army: 'the Leaving of Liverpool', and the absolute banger, 'St Patrick's Day'.
David Corbett retweeted
Whenever I see this on the TL I’m reminded how great a language English is. Look at this syntax.
“In lands to him unknown” is iambic, as are the first lines. And Latin puts adjectives after the noun — terra incognita — which is why “lands… unknown” feels so formal.
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12 October 1492. Explorer Christopher Columbus landed in the “New World”. He’d actually reached the Bahamas which he thought was “The Indies” (an old name for East Asia). Geography was not his strong point.
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My God, England, what has happened to you? This poor old patriot...
Major-General Julian Thompson, who commanded 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War, on the small boats crisis:
"We could stop them tomorrow if we really had the guts. I'd shot them, sorry but I would."
"We're wet. I think there's going to be a revolution."
Full interview covering his military career, views on modern Britain, and growing up in Imperial India: youtube.com/watch?v=nZGUfnIy…