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Date: November 30, 2024 05:44AM

Lieutenant-General Lord Chelmsford was told seven times to not start a war with the Zulu. He was soon to retire and decided to end his career in a blaze of glorious victory, expending the lives of loyal British soldiers and the then foreign Zulu. After being soundly outmanoeuvred and defeated at the Battle of Isandlwana, he ran home to Britain and lied to Queen Victoria. This began the decline of the nobility in law and society, a process that shows no sign of stopping.

In the meantime these men had to fight for their lives at Rorke's Drift.

I think Britain's upper house should be hereditary, yes, but they must be qualified in Constitutional Law, or have eight years work history as an accountant, or eight years in the Armed Forces. Political appointees are not a counter-balance, and we can't have the type of people who gave rise to Lord Chelmsford. People who, for a long time, ran the Boer War so badly.