Catchy title; catchy pen name (if it’s a pen name). From Peachy Keenan at tomklingensten.com:
Editor’s Note
Peachy Keenan looks across the Atlantic, to her father’s homeland, for a dire warning of what might befall a country that does not defend its people, their freedoms, or their way of life.
My father emigrated to the United States from England in the 1940s, a few years after the Second World War. He was three years old and accompanied by his British mother, who had served in the Royal Air Force. His father was American, however, and from the instant my toddler father stepped off the boat in Manhattan, my grandfather set about turning his young son into the most American boy in New York.
But my very English grandmother clung to her traditions. Lace doilies and tea time. Scones and mince pies. And a very cute accent she had all her life, although it had faded by the time she died.
Americans shared her abiding love for the Queen and Winston Churchill widely. There was a powerful kinship between us, even if you couldn’t trace your direct ancestry back to the British Isles. The British were acknowledged as our cousins, distinguishable only by their accents and their teeth. Yes, all our best villains had English accents in our movies, but they were lovable villains.
I’m glad my grandmother is not here to see what’s become of her homeland.
My Australian friends used to insult British people by calling them “poms,” which, according to these Aussies, meant they were “prisoners of Mother England.” The etymology of the expression is murky, but suffice it to say that being a prisoner of the Queen’s
Keep calm and perfidious Albion.
Waive the rules, the sun has set.
James Bond is a fictional character in a movie.
RF is accusing them of the PR attack and one astute pod says look closely, the planes have no engines. (H/T-AM)
Mark Steyn said the same thing 20 years ago.
What did the brits do ?
A nation of pussies gets f@#$&*
They deserve it.