there was some anxious murmuring on the british right when obama was elected, since his published views on the uk extended to describing his grandfather's experiences as a menial for a british officer during the second world war and then a detainee during the mau mau rebellion during which thousands of people were tortured, castrated, executed and so forth
that period of late colonial pretention encompassing the particularly unpleasant malayan emergency and various minor skirmishes is very seldom mentioned by the empire queens but it provided an initial template for the vietnam counterinsurgency
harold wilson's terribly apologetic unwillingness for not joining in that folly being one of the few unalloyed british foreign policy successes of the postwar era, again seldom mentioned by the liberal internationalists who reflexively support american follies of this century
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Friday, 31 October 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Those Kenyans that fought against Hitler without any wage other than sustenance and then got put into British gulags that were easily as murderous as Stalin's Kolyma camp, for having the temerity to expect a life in their own land. They can stick this fucking "freedom" up their arseholes.
― xelab, Saturday, 15 November 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
As I've said in other contexts, one should never mistake being an anglophone for being an anglophile.
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Saturday, 15 November 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
surprisingly good new statesman article about this
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/02/rise-anglosphere-how-right-dreamed-new-conservative-world-order
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
is there a good precis of what harper has been doing in canada
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
for some reason new zealand feels like a bit of a stretch compared to the other 4
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Oceania
― Mordy, Friday, 13 March 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Though not well known in the Anglosphere, Ms Konstantopoulou is being touted among some Syriza members and MPs as a potential figurehead for opposition to the coming deal.
― Mordy, Thursday, 21 May 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
this is a v good thread and i’m bringing nothing to it other than
The Anglosphere does indeed exist... 🧻 https://t.co/8TKLN6YXdU— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 8, 2020
― Fizzles, Sunday, 8 March 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link
love to see irish broken down (insert eu troika joke)
ive a feeling we've been lumped in there
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 March 2020 11:40 (four years ago) link
Sorry guys, but…
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 8 March 2020 13:18 (four years ago) link
It appears history is to blame
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 8 March 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to buy cake
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link