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• March 23, 2012
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MDC-T: Inventing a matching scandal

Before the 1789 revolution which gave a bloody full-stop to the Frankish Monarchical line, France was an unliked, war-mongering polity. That dubious status continued during the “reign” of Robspierre, consolidating itself under France’s first Emperor Napoleon, that diminutive Italian who ruled France for more than a decade and half, a diminutive who almost ruled Europe.

And of course France’s arch-enemy was England whose main fortress were the waters of the oceancradling it, cutting it from mainland Europe, by then martial France’s parade ground. These waters made England naturally impregnable, while providing it with enough “ground” on which to build a formidable navy.
England thus grew up a water-borne power, something that enabled it to build and defend an overseas empire. Yes, something that made it foremost in inventing piracy and buccaneering. Alongside the Dutch, the French and sometimes the Spaniards, piracy is England’s dubious fame in history, a fame it is just beginning to lose to Somalis who actually have better cause to be thus. Their fishes have been abused, severely depleted by foreigners trawling deeper and deeper into that country’s troubled politics, something England could not