'The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights'

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Nothing demonstrates just how much of a bubble the US political, media, business and 'military' elite occupy quite like performative 'What will the world be thinking?' hand-wringing over Donald Trump.

I can confidently assure you that the inhabitants of other nations are far

Mont-Saint-Michel might be the most aesthetic place on earth.

It’s a cultural icon today, but at one point it served as a prison, and then was almost completely lost to history.

It’s story highlights the need to vigilantly guard our cultural heritage🧵(thread)

Nothing demonstrates just how much of a bubble the US political, media, business and 'military' elite occupy quite like performative 'What will the world be thinking?' hand-wringing over Donald Trump.

I can confidently assure you that the inhabitants of other nations are far

If we wonder why our current owners in almost every country are such slime, let us remember those whom we Westerners rejected. Ultimately, sad as their ends were, they themselves were far better than what their subjects' descendants have been left to contend with.

Brugge, Belgium🇧🇪

'Let others wage war, but you, happy Austria, you will marry'

No other line incarnated the idea of dynasty quite like the House of Habsburg, on whose branches scores of nations did grow. To learn more about the rise to glory of that most imperial of houses, The Medieval

A lot of 'Christian leaders' have conflated Christianity with the post-WWII global order and the results are rather embarrassing

The Tame Magpie
Alessandro Magnasco, c. 1708

As well as an extravagant waste of everybody's time and money, General Election campaigns in the United Kingdom are excruciatingly embarrassing.

When three legions entered the Teutoburg Forest they were wiped off the face of the earth.

The Varian Disaster was one of the biggest humiliations for the Roman Empire.

A thread🧵on the world’s most notorious ambush.

“Varus! Bring me back my legions!”

The greatest confidence trick ever played on the British convinced them that the regicide of their King, and the total usurpation of their government by parliamentary oligarchy, blessed instead of cursed the British Isles.

May Parliament be dissolved and never recalled.

The Fountain of the Galleon (Fontana della Galera) is a delightful feature within the Gardens of Vatican City. It was designed by Hans van Zanten, a Dutch artist and architect who lived during the late Renaissance period.

At the heart of the fountain lies a miniature galleon, a

Socrates valiantly sought to cut that regime men call 'democracy' at the root, but alas it metastasised.

Indeed, whether voters are adequately informed is moot when the disastrous Athenian model mutated into oligarchy, and your choice is between branches of the same business...

On May 29, 1453 the Ottomans were amassing - they were about to make history and be the first army to go through the Theodosian walls into the ancient capital of the Roman Empire.

The Romans feared this day would come!

Constantinople was about to fall, but not without a fight!

'I cannot flatter myself with the expectation of good success more than this, to end my days with honour and a good conscience'

Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland

The National Theatre is possibly the ugliest building in the United Kingdom.

Its continued existence, however, is a potent reminder of that great unspoken tragedy - that London city councils did more damage to the urban fabric of the capital than the Luftwaffe.

Roger Scruton (1944-2020) was one of the most brilliant and incisive defenders of what he described as “high culture”, the West's great repository of art, literature, and philosophy that functions to bind people together into an ethical community.

Here’s why it matters… 🧵

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon
Canaletto, before 1768