Tuesday 19 July 2022

The only explanations are that we are not the men our fathers were - or that we have an extremely bad ruling class

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  1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003591571600901611

    The reality is that in West Africa 4 in 10 servicemen died there, even in gentle India 1 in ten did, the Empire was built on imperial fodder

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  2. Certainly the current crop of Masters of the Universe are trying to match the record of old India hands saved only by Flemings wonder

    https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1897/may/14/british-troops-in-india-health

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  3. I think that the gentleman has in mind the British reaction to the current heat wave, not any imperial or post-imperial decline.

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