Current Affairs Her majesty the Queen

[BullensRoad]

Yet horse racing is going to be on on Sunday.

And fox hunting.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Evidently not a History Professor…..

Slavery in the Asante Empire of West Africa | Mises Institute

The Asante (or Ashanti) Empire of West Africa is a reminder that slavery and political conquest are not at all unique to Europeans.

mises.org

 

[stipe]

"It is my job (as a monarch) to protect my peoples from their governments!"

As monarch of long fallen empire once said (too bad "his" peoples didn't share that idea)

 

[Groucho]

They keep saying she’s seen 15 PMs.

My youngest son is 7 and he’s seen 4 of them.

To add, I’ve got a bottle of milk in the fridge that’s seen two PMs and two monarchs.

 

[Bedfordblue]

 

[Yarrgh]

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Stevie G?

 

[Eggs]

…I thought Starmer was much more Prime Ministerial than the PM in his Parliamentary tribute to the Queen.

 

[slipstream86]

I'm not sure it says what you think it does

I'm not sure my post says what you think it does....I said Putins message was considered and with condolence.

Has he got some ulterior interests behind what he wrote? Yes almost certainly.

 

[catcherintherye]

Evidently not a History Professor…..

What she says is blunt, ill timed and in bad taste, but its not historically inaccurate.

The question is more perhaps whether this is the moment to say it.

 

[Yarrgh]

Just been told ‘it’s like everyone’s grandma has died’

Was she a horrifically racisct, religiously bigoted old cabbage like mine?

This sad time must hut you doubly hard. My condolences.

 

[Rita_Poon]

So King Charles the third happy to choose the royal title that will undoubtedly become synonymous with having a poo.

But will he unleash a reign of terror or of glory?

Southern Waters choice?

 

[Rita_Poon]

boris on chatting about him an interview where he ended tears at the thought the queen would die soonish and had to stop the camera and send them away.

had to mute him, this isn't 'jackanory' this is the house of commons on the news. an odious creature hypnotized by the dazzle of the limelight.

 

[Charlie Sweet]

On LBC this morning a commentator compared Elizabeth to Ghandi and Martin Luther King as the saintly icons of the last 100+ years. That's a bit of a bloody leap like...!

 

[Yarrgh]

The RS the last side to post a tribute. Not surprised. Very late

It meant more. YMCA

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

What she says is blunt, ill timed and in bad taste, but its not historically inaccurate.

The question is more perhaps whether this is the moment to say it.

She clearly chooses to totally ignore the cultural realities of slavery within African societies at the time. Causality for the European involvement in the slave trade was in Africans selling already enslaved Africans to the early traders that arrived. But this is not for this thread, just that silly womans hate filled, myopic bias in blaming the queen for slavery.