In this video, I sit down with Gill Bennett, former Chief Historian of the Foreign Office, to share the secrets of British Intelligence since 1909. Video credits to the Military Intelligence Museum Military Intelligence Museum:

Dominion Day is upon us! God Save the King!

Happy birthday to the only transcontinental, bicultural, parliamentary confederation in the history of the world 🍁

Good to see the proper crown -- not the "Canadian (TM) snowflake" foolishness that unqualified and graceless Rideau Hall staff came up with.

The Old Tory A young John A. Macdonald sought to create a Tory party of "progressive Conservatives" long before the word conservative named a party and long before the word progressive became ideological. - National Archives, Macdonald in 1854. #cdnpoli

“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.” Edmund Burke, 12th January 1729 – 9th July 1797

“Looking at those great works of western man and remembering all that he’s achieved in philosophy, poetry, science, law making, it does seem hard to believe that European civilisation can ever vanish. And yet, you know, it has happened once.” - Sir Kenneth Clark

“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.” Sir Roger Scruton

“Our language, our music, and our manners are increasingly raucous, self-centred, and offensive, as though beauty and good taste have no real place in our lives. One word is written large on all these ugly things, and that word is ‘me’.” Sir Roger Scruton

In 1837, Benjamin Disraeli was elected to the House of Commons for the first time. Later that year, he made a chaotic (and much barracked) maiden speech, ending with the words: ‘Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me!’

Bring back the ragged maple leaf in the roundel. So much more distinguished than the Pearson cookie-cutter version! Come to that, bring back the Royal Union in the corner -- it only makes sense to restore this version.

Christopher Dawson (1889–1970) was a British historian whose work profoundly shaped our understanding of the role of religion in the development of culture

John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir in the dress of an honorary Kainai chieftain when he was Governor General of Canada. He was born 150 years ago OTD.

Aristocratic patrons have traditionally held considerable sway over parish livings ✍️ Eleanor Doughty investigates churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

Apparently the first episode of ‘To The Manor Born’ was broadcast on this day in 1979. Any excuse to show this clip — Noblesse Oblige

Boys Clothes for Autumn Brooks Brothers

“Dear boy, I can hardly close the door.” Alan Clark, when asked if he had any skeletons in his cupboard.

“A rule of law requires a shared allegiance, by which people entrust their collective destiny to sovereign institutions… This shared allegiance is a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead – a continuous trust that no generation can pillage for its own advantage”

#I_will_TOAST #sirJAM for establishing the moderate tory tradition in Canada. #OldTory

The Old Flag. The Old Policy. The Old Leader. The #OldTory.